A person linked to a handful of latest lethal shootings in Birmingham, Alabama, was charged on Tuesday in three extra homicide investigations, together with the line-of-duty loss of life of a firefighter in 2023.
Damien McDaniel, now 22, has been charged with capital homicide of a primary responder within the capturing loss of life of Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton, who was focused whereas working at Fireplace Station #9 within the Norwood group on July 12, 2023, in keeping with the Birmingham Police Division.
Sgt. Jamal Jones was additionally shot through the incident, however survived, leading to an tried homicide cost for McDaniel.
Birmingham police introduced on Tuesday that McDaniel, who has been in custody for months, can be charged with intentional homicide within the January 2024 loss of life of Mia Nickson and capital homicide (murder-for-hire) within the April 2024 loss of life of UPS driver Anthony Love, Jr.
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Birmingham police introduced on Tuesday {that a} man accused of killing 13 individuals over the previous yr and a half has been charged with capital homicide of a primary responder within the July 2023 loss of life of Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton. (Alabama Division of Corrections / Birmingham Police Division)
With Tuesday’s fees, McDaniel is allegedly linked to 14 murders within the Birmingham space and is accused of injuring not less than 29 individuals.
He’s charged with capital homicide within the July 13, 2024, mass capturing exterior Trendsetters Lounge and Occasion Middle that left 4 individuals useless and 10 others injured.Â
He’s additionally charged with capital homicide and 17 counts of first-degree assault within the Sept. 21, 2024, mass capturing exterior a hookah lounge within the widespread 5 Factors South space, which resulted in 4 deaths and injured not less than 17 others. Birmingham police mentioned on the time of the capturing that they believed the suspects have been paid to open hearth on the world.
Damien McDaniel, 22, has been linked to 14 murders within the Birmingham, Alabama, space since July 2023, in keeping with metropolis police. (Birmingham Police Division / WBRC)
On prime of his connections to the 2 mass shootings, police additionally imagine McDaniel was concerned in three different lethal shootings that came about on separate days in August and September.
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McDaniel is at the moment behind bars on the Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery, Alabama, after his probation was revoked on tried homicide convictions stemming from a 2019 capturing within the Fairfield space.
Within the Fairfield case, he was sentenced in 2023 to fifteen years in jail with two years to serve adopted by three years probation, in keeping with native outlet AL.com.
McDaniel has been in police custody since October 2024. (WBRC)
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McDaniel was arrested by Birmingham police in October 2024 and was positioned within the Jefferson County Jail.Â
When his probation was revoked on Dec. 12, 2024, he was transferred to the custody of the Alabama Division of Corrections.
