Investigations are ongoing after two men were killed in separate Birmingham shootings since Thursday.

The first shooting happened about 1:20 a.m. Thursday near Ensley Avenue at Pike Road.

West Precinct officers arrived to find 22-year-old Levi Wells unresponsive inside a vehicle.

Wells was taken to UAB Hospital where he died on Friday, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald said the preliminary investigation showed that Wells and 26-year-old Austin Kimbrough were involved in a confrontation after Wells drove away from a nearby gas station in his vehicle.

Kimbrough reportedly shot Wells and then left the scene.

The police department’s Crime Reduction Team later arrested Kimbrough. He was initially charged with attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Detectives will now seek a capital murder warrant against Kimbrough.

The second shooting happened shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday in the 900 block of 14th Place S.W.

Police said there was a gathering inside a home when the victim and the suspect got into a physical altercation inside the residence.

The victim was pronounced dead on the scene. The suspect was taken into custody at the scene.

Fitzgerald said the suspected shooter is in the Birmingham City Jail on a 48-hour hold pending the ongoing investigation.

The deaths bring the city’s homicide total so far in 2025 to 85.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 122 homicides, including the 85 in Birmingham.

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