A suspected “spree killer” who was arrested in October following three lethal incidents in Alabama, together with a mass capturing outdoors a nightclub, has now been charged in reference to three extra homicide investigations.
Damien McDaniel, 22, has been charged with capital homicide of a primary responder within the capturing of two Birmingham firefighters in July 2023, in keeping with the Birmingham Police Division.
As well as, McDaniel is now additionally charged with homicide within the January 2024 demise of Mia Nickson and murder-for-hire within the April 2024 demise of UPS driver Anthony Love Jr.
The brand new expenses imply that he’s now allegedly linked to 14 murders within the Birmingham space and is accused of injuring not less than 29 folks. Here’s a take a look at the circumstances stacking up in opposition to McDaniel thus far:
Alleged homicide and tried homicide of firefighters
On Tuesday BPD introduced that McDaniel had been charged over the deadly capturing of Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton who was shot and killed on July 12, 2023, at Fireplace Station #9, within the Norwood group.
A second firefighter, Sergeant Jamal Jones, was additionally shot throughout this incident however survived in keeping with the drive. McDaniel has been charged with each capital homicide of a primary responder and tried homicide.
“We’re appreciative of the Melton and Malone Household, BFRS Chief Cory Moon, and all of our brothers and sisters of the BFRS for his or her endurance as we diligently continued to work on this case to carry an individual to justice,” the drive mentioned in an internet submit.
“BPD extends gratitude to our esteemed companions, together with the Jefferson County DistrictAttorney’s Workplace, ATF, FBI, and Crime Stoppers, for his or her invaluable collaboration all through this investigation.
“I hope that with the formal expenses that you just all see right this moment, together with the massive variety of steady arrests that you’ve lately, is sending the clear message that BPD is not going to let up. BPD is LOCKED IN.”
Alleged homicide of Anthony Lamar Love Jr and Tia Nickson
BPD additionally introduced on Tuesday that McDaniel had been charged with alleged homicide for rent, over the demise of Anthony Lamar Love Jr. Love Jr was shot and killed on April 9 2024, at a United Parcel Service facility.
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McDaniel was charged alongside Charles Nance, 41, of Pinson, Alabama. Nance can be charged with capital homicide (homicide for rent.)
BPD detectives additionally obtained a warrant for an arrest in connection to the homicide of Mia Nickson on January 10 2024. McDaniel has been charged with intentional homicide within the case.
Hush nightclub ‘mass capturing’ and ‘spree killing’
In October 2024, McDaniel was arrested and charged with capital homicide and 17 counts of first-degree assault over the shootings that occurred inside 4 days of one another. The US Bureau of Justice Statistics has outlined a spree killing as “killings at two or extra areas with nearly no time break between murders.”
4 folks died throughout an incident on the Hush bar in Birmingham on September 21, in what police described as a focused “hit” by a number of shooters. A mass capturing is outlined as an incident during which not less than 4 persons are shot or killed, not together with the shooter.
Three different suspects have been recognized within the Hush capturing as Demarco Beck Jr, 29, Ny’Quan Lollar, 22, and Larry Rollins Jr, 31.
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On the time of his arrest, McDaniel was additionally charged with homicide over the killing of a single mom, 35-year-old Diontrante Tinae Brown, on September 19. No hyperlink between her and the Hush capturing has been established.
A day after the mass capturing at Hush, on September 22, 32-year-old Jamarcus McIntyre was additionally gunned down within the space shut by. The identical 4 suspects have been implicated in his homicide, although once more, a direct hyperlink to the occasions of yesterday is unknown.
Solely McDaniel has been charged over McIntyre’s killing. Police say all three murder circumstances are linked however they haven’t publicly disclosed what might have linked the deaths, in keeping with AL.com.
Following the incident, police mentioned that they believed the killings at Hush have been the results of a “hit” – a murder-for-hire focusing on not less than one of many males killed within the capturing.
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The victims
The 4 victims of the Hush mass capturing have been Anitra Holloman, 21, Tahj Booker, 27, Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr, 26, and Carlos McCain, 27.
Neither Holloman and Booker had felony histories. Holloman had been in a relationship with a person named Demetris Silliman Jr, who was discovered shot to demise on October 11, 2022. Nobody was charged over his demise.
Nevertheless, the 2 different males – Patterson and McCain – had each beforehand confronted homicide expenses, and each had been acquitted. Patterson was beforehand charged with homicide over the demise of 20-year-old Dentarius Maurice Jackson on June 28, 2021. The case was dismissed, with prosecutors citing “demise, unavailability, and non-cooperation of witnesses.”
McCain was acquitted of homicide and tried homicide in 2017 within the capturing demise of 15-year-old Minor Excessive Faculty pupil Kelvon Julius. Police mentioned {the teenager}’s demise was in retaliation for one more capturing in 2015.
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“You have got a standard suspect, for one factor that’s charged, in all three…. This is only one step in transferring ahead. There’s much more to come back in these investigations as we put together for courtroom,” Birmingham police Chief Scott Thurmond mentioned beforehand.
Police investigations
The investigation is constant into all of the homicides.
“After the horrific capturing at 5 Factors South, we vowed that our precedence could be to seek out, seize and arrest each individual answerable for this heinous and brazen mass capturing,” Mayor Randall Woodfin posted on Fb.
“We advised you that is what we’d do, and that is what we did. In the present day was a significant step towards justice,” Woodfin wrote.
McDaniel was arrested by Birmingham police in October 2024 and was positioned within the Jefferson County Jail.
When his probation was revoked on December 12, he was transferred to the custody of the Alabama Division of Corrections.
