February 27, 2025
Damien McDaniel, 22, has been charged and is at present held with no bond.
An Alabama man was arrested Tuesday, Feb. 26, and charged with allegedly killing at the least 14 folks and capturing 29 others in Birmingham over the previous yr and a half.
On its Fb web page, the Birmingham Police Division introduced in a number of posts that an arrest warrant was issued for 22-year-old Damien McDaniel of Fairfield for the murders of Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton, Mia Nickson, and Anthony Lamar Love Jr.
In a follow-up entry, the police division revealed that McDaniel was arrested together with one other suspect in one of many deaths, 41-year-old Charles Nance of Pinson.
WRBC 6 Information reported that McDaniel was indicted on 37 felony counts for 5 totally different shootings over three months in 2024. He’s considered one of a number of defendants concerned within the mass capturing in 5 Factors South and the mass capturing at Trendsetters Lounge.
Earlier than the latest costs, he was accused of killing 11 and capturing 29 folks.
Birmingham Police stated the latest capital homicide costs associated to the killing of Nickson and Love are murder-for-hire instances. McDaniel is being held with out bond on the Alabama Division of Corrections at Kilby Correctional Facility.
“We had been conscious that there was additional investigations happening that had been separate from the pending instances,” John Robbins, McDaniels stated in an announcement, in accordance with WVTM 13. “So, we aren’t too shocked by the extra costs.
“The protection staff is not going to be deterred from offering our shopper with a vigorous protection that our system of justice calls for. The protection staff understands and appreciates the ache and struggling that the household and associates of all of the victims have skilled and can proceed to expertise as these instances play out in courtroom. We aren’t blind to that side of any murder case.”
Final yr, Birmingham police introduced that McDaniel was being charged within the killing of Diontronet Brown Sept. 19 and for the deaths of Tahj Booker, Carlos McCain, Anitra Holloman, and Roderick Patterson within the 5 Factors South mass capturing Sept. 21. Then, the very subsequent day, Jamarcus McIntyre was killed and McDaniel was charged with the dying.
In October 2024, McDaniel was charged with killing Markeshia Gettings, Stevie McGhee, Angela Weatherspoon, and Lerandus Anderson on the Trendsetter Lounge on July 13 in addition to the dying of Charlie Moore in his residence on Aug. 13.
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