An unknown shooter opened fire into a vehicle leaving a youth football practice Tuesday night, wounding three people — two of them children. Birming Ham Police Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said that injuries to one of the children were “life threatening.” Both children were taken to Children’s Hospital, and the adult wounded was taken to University …
An Alabama man has been charged with murder in the death of a 27-year-old Birmingham woman who was found dead last week. Tremayne Dawon King, 34, was booked Tuesday for the murder of Maria Juan, whose family reported her missing early Friday morning, according to WTVM. Her body was found at The Hillside apartment complex …
Four poeople were killed and 17 wounded in a mass shooting outside a popular Alabama nightspot that police say may have been a very targeted murder for hire. The suspected target of the shooting was among the dead, Birmingham Police Chief Soctt Thurmond said Sunday morning, according to AL.com. “It wasn’t the location, it was …
Alabama authorities have ruled the death of a 4-year-old girl, critically injured two years ago in a shooting that killed her father and injured her infant brother, was a homicide. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office made the ruling this week, AL.com reported. Madison Grace Davis died on June 25, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Her father, …
Alabama police have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a 31-year-old Atlanta doctoral student who disappeared during a family 4th of July celebration and was found dead two days later. Investigators are also looking for Deundray Cottrell’s 31-year-old partner of three years, Julian Taylor Morris, who disappeared the day after Cottrell disappeared. Cottrell’s …
A 14-year-old was shot and killed near an Alabama Walmart Sunday morning. Birmingham Police said a group of juveniles were in the area Sunday morning with a firearm, but they don’t yet know what led to the shooting, WBRC reported. The 14-year-old was brought to the University of Alabama Hospital in a minivan just before …
A 27-year-old Alabama man has been charged with capital murder in a deadly shooting that left his ex-girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter dead and her 5-year-old son wounded. Birmingham Police said that Otis Lee Montgomery III has also been charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied building, WBMA reported. Investigators say Montgomery fired …
A 13-year-old Alabama boy who was found dead at an extended stay hotel in March died from malnutrition and dehydration, complicated by neglect. Shelby County Coroner Linda Evans contacted Birmingham police on June 6 and told them that she had classified Aston Starkey’s death a homicide, AL.com reported. Birmingham Fire and Rescue responded to Extended …
A Alabama woman was found dead on a front porch Tuesday afternoon in Birmingham’s Inglenook neighborhood, and police say her body had been there for a couple of days. “This did not just happen,’’ Officer Truman Fitzgerald told AL.com. Fitzgerald said the death was being investigated as a murder after “officers observed signs of trauma …
An Alabama mother of four believed kidnapped at the site of a Birmingham traffic accident has been found dead. Nakita Davidson’s body was found shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, inside her burgundy Saturn Outlook in a wooded, dead-end area, WBRC reported. Davidson was last seen around 2 a.m. Thursday, as CrimeOnline reported. Shortly after …
Alabama police are searching for a 40-year-old woman they believe was in a vehicle accident early Thursday morning and was possibly seriously injured in an assault and kidnapped. Nakita Davidson was last seen shortly before 2 a.m. near 6th Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr Drive, Birmingham police said. She was wearing a long, pink …
An unknown person opened fire in an Alabama UPS facility parking lot Tuesday, gunning down a 44-year-old husband and father who was leaving work at the end of his shift. Birmingham Police said Anthony Lamar Love Jr. had worked for the shipping company for around 20 years. They said about a dozen shots rang out …
