An investigation is underway after a fatal shooting Tuesday in East Avondale.

Birmingham police and fire medics responded about 4:30 p.m. to Second Avenue South between 47th and 48th streets on a report of a person shot. Sgt. Rod Mauldin said the victimwas found unresponsive in the road in front of a house. He was pronounced dead on the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service. The location is in a small neighborhood with just several houses.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Wednesday identified the victim as Devin Dewayne Williams. He was 38.

Mauldin said the preliminary investigation suggests Williams was involved in some kind of altercation with another person. That altercation turned physical. A third person then arrived and fired shots, striking Williams.

A motive has yet to be determined, and no suspects are in custody.

The deadly shooting is the city’s third homicide in 24 hours. On Monday 23-year-old Cordai Deonte Molette - the son of a Birmingham police detective - was killed while he was driving a vehicle on Messer Airport Highway. Just several hours later, Tim’Darius Theophilus Gamble, 21, died in a domestic shooting at a Pratt City home.

"These different situations aren’t related,'' Mauldin said. “They are isolated events where the suspect knows the victim and there’s some kind of relationship between them.”

Tuesday deadly shooting brings Birmingham 2020 homicide count to 31. Of those, four have been ruled justifiable and therefore are not deemed criminal. In all of Jefferson County there have been 50 slayings, including the 31 in Birmingham.

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