Tynez Lloyd Durden

Tynez Lloyd Durden was a 17-year-old student at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama. Family, friends, and classmates knew him as a young person rooted in his community and still forming the plans and hopes common to someone his age. School officials expressed deep sorrow at his injury and the loss felt across the Woodlawn community.

Public reports show Tynez was wounded in a shooting on the evening of October 17, 2022, in the 7700 block of Sunrise Lane and was taken to Children’s of Alabama for treatment. He later succumbed to his injuries days after being hospitalized. Those facts are part of the public record; they never define the whole of who Tynez was. He remains remembered first as a student, a son, and a young person whose life held promise.

Although public details about Tynez’s personal interests, family members, and daily life are limited in available sources, the response from his school and community—statements of grief and offers of counseling—reflects that he was known and cared for by people around him. This remembrance honours Tynez as a real person whose life mattered to family, friends, and his school community, and it acknowledges the grief left by his loss.

If family-authorized memorials, photographs, or further personal remembrances become available from reliable family or funeral-home sources, they should be consulted to expand this page with the care and specificity his memory deserves.