A person related to a handful of new fatal shootings in Birmingham, Alabama, used to be charged on Tuesday in 3 extra homicide investigations, together with the line-of-duty dying of a firefighter in 2023.
Damien McDaniel, now 22, has been charged with capital homicide of a primary responder within the capturing dying of Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton, who used to be focused whilst operating at Fireplace Station #9 within the Norwood neighborhood on July 12, 2023, in line with the Birmingham Police Division.
Sgt. Jamal Jones used to be additionally shot all the way through the incident, however survived, leading to an tried homicide rate for McDaniel.
Birmingham police introduced on Tuesday that McDaniel, who has been in custody for months, may be charged with intentional homicide within the January 2024 dying of Mia Nickson and capital homicide (murder-for-hire) within the April 2024 dying of UPS motive force Anthony Love, Jr.
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Birmingham police introduced on Tuesday {that a} guy accused of killing 13 other people over the last yr and a part has been charged with capital homicide of a primary responder within the July 2023 dying of Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton. (Alabama Division of Corrections / Birmingham Police Division)
With Tuesday’s fees, McDaniel is allegedly hooked up to fourteen murders within the Birmingham space and is accused of wounding a minimum of 29 other people.
He’s charged with capital homicide within the July 13, 2024, mass capturing outdoor Trendsetters Front room and Tournament Middle that left 4 other people lifeless and 10 others injured.
He’s additionally charged with capital homicide and 17 counts of first-degree attack within the Sept. 21, 2024, mass capturing outdoor a hookah living room in the preferred 5 Issues South space, which ended in 4 deaths and injured a minimum of 17 others. Birmingham police mentioned on the time of the capturing that they believed the suspects have been paid to open hearth at the space.

Damien McDaniel, 22, has been hooked up to fourteen murders within the Birmingham, Alabama, space since July 2023, in line with town police. (Birmingham Police Division / WBRC)
On most sensible of his connections to the 2 mass shootings, police additionally consider McDaniel used to be thinking about 3 different fatal shootings that came about on separate days in August and September.
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McDaniel is recently at the back of bars on the Kilby Correctional Facility in Sir Bernard Law, Alabama, after his probation used to be revoked on tried homicide convictions stemming from a 2019 capturing within the Fairfield space.
Within the Fairfield case, he used to be sentenced in 2023 to fifteen years in jail with two years to serve adopted via 3 years probation, in line with native outlet AL.com.

McDaniel has been in police custody since October 2024. (WBRC)
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McDaniel used to be arrested via Birmingham police in October 2024 and used to be positioned within the Jefferson County Prison.
When his probation used to be revoked on Dec. 12, 2024, he used to be transferred to the custody of the Alabama Division of Corrections.