41-year-old identified as towing company owner found shot to death in Birmingham

Authorities have released the name of a man found shot to death outside his tow truck late Saturday night in southwest Birmingham.

Birmingham police identified the city’s 40th homicide victim as Christopher Deandre Coleman. He was 41 and lived in Birmingham.

Coleman was the owner of Coleman’s towing. He was a father, a grandfather and described by friends as a family man.

West Precinct officers were dispatched at 11:10 p.m. Saturday to the 1700 block of Maple Avenue S.W. after someone called 911 about a tow truck that was backed onto the property of a vacant house.

Officers arrived to the find the tow truck was still running. As they walked around the truck, they found Coleman dead on the ground.

A man was found shot to death outside a running tow truck on Birmingham's Maple Avenue S.W. on Saturday, April 13, 2024.

Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said one of the residents in the neighborhood did hear gunshots but did not go outside to investigate.

Coleman was Birmingham’s third homicide in less than 72 hours.

On Thursday, a 40-year-old woman, Nakita Chantryce “Kita” Davidson, was shot and abducted by her boyfriend. Her body was found Friday.

Early Saturday morning, a 26-year-old man was killed on the city’s east side.

No arrests have been made.

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

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