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An investigation is underway after a deadly Christmas night shooting in the Center Point area.
Birmingham police and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene just after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The location is a neighborhood in the 500 block of 26th Avenue N.W.
According to police radio traffic, the victim was shot in unincorporated Jefferson County and ran a block before collapsing inside the city limits.
The victim was pronounced dead on the scene.
Because the shooting happened in the unincorporated area, the sheriff’s office will handle the investigation.
No additional details have been released.
It is the second deadly shooting in the Center Point area in under 48 hours.
On Monday, at 11:50 p.m., police responded to a report of a person down in the 200 block of Polly Reed Road. He later died.
