Grandmother and 3-Year-Old Grandchild Found Dead in Alabama Home—Police

A 3-year-old child and their grandmother were found dead in Alabama on Sunday.

A woman in her 60s, believed to be the child's grandmother, was discovered deceased at a home on 4909 Hillman Drive in Birmingham, according to an AL report.

Police were dispatched at around 5 p.m. on Sunday for a welfare check. When they arrived at the home, they were met with concerned family members.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service and the police forced their way into the home and discovered the 3-year-old and their grandmother unresponsive.

"The injuries sustained are what we believe to be consistent with homicide," Sgt. Rod Mauldin said.

He went on to say that blunt force trauma may have been involved but police would wait for an autopsy to determine the official cause of death.

Mauldin also noted that one person is currently being questioned. It is not clear whether this individual was known to the two deceased or was one of the family members.

In March, the interim Birmingham police chief, Scott Thurmound, addressed the issues of violence, gun violence and homicide in the city at a press conference.

The press conference was held following the death of a 13-year-old boy, Jaylon Palmore, who was killed by a bullet that was not meant for him.

"To continue to have these homicides almost on a daily basis is very, very frustrating," Thurmound said on March 8 during the press conference, according to a WBRC report.

"I get tired of getting the calls. I get tired of reading about the silly things that occur that cause someone to lose their life. They're silly. They're ridiculous and people are dying and losing their lives and I'm tired of it."

The mayor, Randall Woodfin, also echoed these comments during the press conference and called for people to do better.

"It's hard to sit across from a mother that's grieving with tears coming down her eyes sharing with me the stories of her 13-year-old son that she'll never get to hold again," Woodfin said.

"Hopeless is not the word. It's more of anger and sadness. It's more of some, you know, some explicitly. It's more of adults do better."

Speaking more specifically about the killing of Palmore, the mayor said that his death was not right or fair.

"The truth is, he should be in his classroom today with his classmates but he's not and he can't because he's no longer with us because he was killed by a bullet that wasn't meant for him," Woodfin said, according to an AL report.

"Jaylon was an innocent child taken from us. Taken from his mother, taken from his father and his stepfather. It's not fair, it's not right."

Newsweek has contacted the Birmingham Police Department for comment.