It was another violent weekend throughout Jefferson County, with six people killed between Saturday and Monday.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Tuesday identified the victims as Jani Barker, 15, Glen Junior Morrow, 37, Roberto Castillo-Gonzales, 51, Julio Acosta Garcia, 25, Tatyanna Sherese Hannah, 17 and Juanderius Woods, 43.
Jani was killed Saturday afternoon.
Few details have been released in her slaying, but Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office officials said they were dispatched at 3:44 p.m. to the 5000 block of Parkway in Fairfield on a report of a someone shot.
They arrived to find Jani wounded. She was taken to Children’s of Alabama where she was pronounced dead at 7:30 p.m.
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in her slaying.
On Saturday night, Birmingham police responded at 10:45 p.m. to the apartments at 420 78th Street South.
Once at the location, they found Morrow, of Birmingham, unresponsive on the ground. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene at 10:58 p.m.
Birmingham police Officer Truman Fitzgerald said it appears the was a verbal argument and the unidentified suspect fled on foot. No arrests have been made.
“We don’t believe this incident is random,’’ he said.
On Sunday afternoon, Bessemer police discovered Castillo-Gonzales dead in a wooded area on 18th Avenue North between Long 14th Street and Short 14th Street. That is in the city’s Pipe Shop area.
Coroner’s officials said Castillo-Gonzales, of Bessemer, had been shot to death. It wasn’t immediately clear when he was killed, but he was pronounced dead at 4:59 p.m.
Bessemer police are investigating.
Garcia, of Richardson, Texas, was fatally shot just at 12:37 a.m. Monday at the Best Western in the 800 of Thompson Street in Gardendale.
According to police, Garcia and another co-worker were from out of state and staying at the hotel when they got into a dispute. The suspect pulled a gun and shot Garcia in the parking lot, and then fled.
Garcia was pronounced dead on the scene at 12:50 a.m.
Officers and detectives quickly identified the suspect. A lookout bulletin was issued over Birmingham area police radios, however the suspect was captured by Tupelo police officers in Mississippi.
Hannah, of Pinson, was shot while riding in a vehicle in Fairfield Monday afternoon.
Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies at 2:47 p.m. were called to the intersection of Overlook Place and Hillside Drive. Lt. Joni Money said once on the scene, they found Hannah suffering from gunshot wounds.
She was rushed to UAB Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 3:59 p.m.
Hannah was a passenger in a vehicle that took gunfire while it was moving. A second person in the vehicle sustained minor injuries.
No arrests have been announced.
Woods was killed Monday night in a shootout after roughly 90 rounds were fired within a minute.
Around 8 p.m., Birmingham’s South Precinct officers began receiving multiple Shot Spotter alerts in and around the 4400 block of Ninth Avenue North in the Kingston community.
Truman Fitzgerald said those rounds were fired in the 800 block of 44th Place, the 900 block of 44th Place North and the 4600 block of Richard Arrington Junior Boulevard North. There were multiple volleys of gunfire in the 800 block of 44th Place North.
“We believe there was a shootout that took place in the middle of the Kingston neighborhood,’’ Fitzgerald said. “All of those shots were fired with minute. We’re talking 10 rounds, 15 rounds, eight rounds, 20 rounds, six rounds, all being fired in succession.”
When officers arrived on the scene, they Woods unresponsive in a parking lot, just off the sidewalk. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 8:25 p.m.
No arrests have been made.
Woods was Birmingham’s second homicide over the weekend. At least eight other people were shot in the city but survived.
Last weekend police investigated five shootings that left 2 victims dead and nine injured.
Monday night’s deadly shooting marked the city’s 53rd homicide this year. Of those, one was an officer-involved shooting by an outside law enforcement agency and at least two others have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 74 homicides including the 53 in Birmingham.
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