The suspect in the shooting death of a man in Birmingham’s Kingston public housing community was taken into custody Friday night.
Demarco Griffin, 27, is charged with murder in the Memorial Day slaying of 43-year-old Juanderius Woods. The brutal killing was captured on surveillance footage that somehow was leaked and made its way onto social media.
The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office issued the warrant against Griffin on Friday. Authorities have not released a motive, but police say Griffin targeted Woods, which was clear on the video of the killing.
Once the warrant was issued, Birmingham police were notified to be on the lookout for Griffin. His car was spotted at an apartment complex on the east side.
More officers responded and took Griffin into custody without incident. He was then taken to Birmingham Police Headquarters for questioning.
He will be held without bond.
The shooting happened about 8 p.m. Monday. South Precinct officers began receiving multiple Shot Spotter alerts in and around the 4400 block of Ninth Avenue North in the Kingston community.
Roughly 90 rounds were fired within one minute.
Officer 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.
“All of those shots were fired within a minute. We’re talking 10 rounds, 15 rounds, eight rounds, 20 rounds, six rounds, all being fired in succession,” Fitzgerald previously said.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found Woods dead in a parking lot, just off the sidewalk.
Within 24 hours of Woods’ death, the video was being circulated on social media.
The video, which has no audio, is about one minute long and shows the parking lot where the deadly shooting happened.
There were more than a half dozen people in the parking when gunfire erupted. They all begin to run in different directions.
Woods can be seen running across the parking lot before he falls. He then gets back up, and stumbles again. The shooter – who police say is Griffin - then stands over Woods and fires multiple shots at him again.
Woods makes his way to his vehicle where he scoots behind the car to take cover, along with another person. That person appears to be firing back at Griffin from behind the car.
Someone in the passenger’s seat opens the door and runs away.
The shooter then runs around the vehicle, still firing at Woods as he is on the ground. Several of those shots were point blank at the victim’s head. The person with Woods is firing back.
That person then dives into the driver’s seat of the car.
The shooter approaches Woods – who by then appears unresponsive -and begins to repeatedly beat him in the head.
The person with Woods then drives off, with both of the car doors still open.
The suspect continues to beat Woods for nine more seconds before the video stops.
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