18-year-old found shot to death after crashing into Birmingham building

By Carol Robinson

An 18-year-old was found shot to death early Sunday when his vehicle crashed into a building in Birmingham.

North Precinct officers were dispatched just after 1 a.m. to 608 Second Ave. North, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald. Once on the scene, they found a driver had wrecked into the building there.

He was unresponsive from a gunshot wound and pronounced dead on the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service.

Birmingham police identified the victim as Rayshod Goldthwaite. The victim graduated in 2021 from Birmingham’s George W. Carver High School.

Fitzgerald said the preliminary investigation shows the victim was traveling in the 600 block of Third Avenue North when another vehicle pulled up alongside him and opened fire.

No arrests have been made.

Goldthwaite is Birmingham’s 57th homicide so far this year. Of those, five have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 75 homicides, including the 57 in Birmingham.

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.

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