A mass shooting suspect has now been charged with a second mass shooting, as well as other shootings.
Police now believe Damien Laron McDaniel III, 22, killed 11 people and wounded 27 during 72 days!
July 13th: McDaniel allegedly opened fire at a birthday party on Birmingham’s 27th Street North. Fourteen people were shot, four of them fatally. A second Black male named Hatarius Woods, 27, has also been charged. The fatalities are Angela Weatherspoon, 56, Markeisha Gettings, 42, Stevie McGhee, 39, and Lerandus Anderson, 24.
August 13th: McDaniel allegedly arrived at an apartment complex in a stolen car on the north side of Birmingham and murdered Charlie Herbert Moore, 61.
September 19th: McDaniel allegedly fatally shot Diontranet Tinae Brown, 35, at a bar in Birmingham. Brown is being called an unintended bystander by police.
September 21st: McDaniel allegedly carried out a mass shooting at a Birmingham hookah lounge called Hush. He shot twenty-one people, four of them fatally. Police say the four people killed are linked to a total of seven other homicides from the past eight years. Their names are Tahj Booker, 27, Anitra Reyonna Holloman, 21, Carlos McCain, 27, and Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr, 26. One was the suspect of a 2016 murder, who got acquitted. Another was a suspect in a 2021 murder that got dismissed due to a lack of evidence.
September 22nd: McDaniel allegedly murdered Jamarcus McIntyre, 23, in a drive-by shooting as he was walking down the street in Birmingham. Three other Black males have also been for this murder: Ny’Quan Cordae Lollar, 22, Larry Denzel Rollins, Jr., 31, and Demarco Nakia Beck Jr., 29. Rollins is also charged with the 2021 murder of Eric Tyler Sledge and is a suspect in another murder.
There is shockingly little media coverage. In a city with one of the highest homicide rates in the Western Hemisphere, these murders constitute 25% of all Birmingham murders during this period. McDaniel appears to have been taking out people suspected of previous murders. However, many of the victims are also just bystanders.
Birmingham Homicide Rate:
2020: 122 (200k, 61.0 per 100k) new record for highest rate
2021: 142 (198k, 71.7 per 100k) new record for highest rate
2022: 144 (197k, 73.1 per 100k) new record for highest rate
2023: 135 (196k, 68.9 per 100k)
2024: 134 as of November 25th, currently on track to set another new record.
