Two Alabama men were shot to death when gunfire erupted during an argument outside club in Birmingham.
26-year-old Cornelius Quinterryo Kennedy and 43-year-old Carlos Antonio Stewart was shot and killed early Sunday during an argument outside the Empire club.
North Precinct officers were dispatched just before 2 a.m. Sunday to the 100 block of Third Avenue North on a report of a person shot.
Once at the location, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald, they found one of the victims unresponsive on the sidewalk across from a parked food truck. That victim was Stewart, and Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene.
Investigators determined there was a verbal altercation at one of several food trucks parked outside Empire club. The altercation turned physical, and then shots were fired.
The suspect fled the scene before police arrived. No arrests have been announced and police have not said who they believe did the shooting.
As the investigation was ongoing, food truck workers got into the van that pulls the truck and realized there was another man dead inside the van. The discovery of Kennedy’s body was made more than an hour after the initial victim was found.
Fitzgerald said Stewart was part of the initial altercation and apparently got shot and then took refuge in the back of the van and died.
There was a large crowd outside the club, and multiple food vendors were there to serve them.
Witnesses and detectives said that Stewart was shot first, and then Kennedy, who sought shelter in the van and then died.
Anyone with information on the deadly double shooting is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
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