Overview

• The shooting happened around 3:30–3:40 a.m. Saturday in the 400 block of Second Avenue North in Birmingham.
• Police say officers were breaking up an argument between two men when a 51-year-old retrieved a firearm and ignored commands to drop it.
• A uniformed Birmingham officer on a department-approved off-duty security assignment fired and struck the man.
• The man was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and no other injuries were reported, according to ALEA.
• The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the State Bureau of Investigation are leading the probe and will forward findings to the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office.