Birmingham Could Break a Tragic 91-Year-Old Record After Multiple Mass Shootings

Though it is impossible to know what is in store for Birmingham in the last three months of 2024, Saturday’s mass shooting that killed four people in Five Points South put the city closer to breaking the city’s annual record for homicides set in 1933.

As of today, there have been 122 homicides in Birmingham in 2024.

In 1933, the city set a record for homicides with 148 violent deaths.

At the rate Birmingham has gone in 2024, a year that has seen three quadruple homicides in seven months, the city could easily have 27 or more homicides before Jan. 1, 2025.

That would break that 91-year-old record.

The spike in homicides this year also comes at a time of dwindling population for Birmingham.

With a population of a little under 197,000 people in 2024, Birmingham has a rate of 6.2 homicides per 10,000 people.

In 1933, when Birmingham had just under 269,000 people, the city had 5.7 homicides for every 10,000 people.

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