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Birmingham Police are investigating a homicide after a man was found shot to death inside a vehicle Monday morning.

The shooting happened shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday in the 3400 block of 26th Street North. The victim wreck his vehicle several blocks away.

Police said three men walked into a South Shore neighborhood Family Dollar store and attacked a security guard Tuesday evening, only for one of the robbers to be shot and killed. At 7:19 p.m., the three men wearing face covers walked into the Family Dollar at 2346 E.

Birmingham Police are investigating after a person was shot Tuesday evening. North Precinct officers responded to the 3100 block of 26th Street North around 7:10 p.m. where they discovered a single-vehicle collision.