Twin brothers sought in the Memorial Day shooting death of a 17-year-old girl in Fairfield are now in custody.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office six days ago announced warrants for Ke’Andre Fuller and Ke’Autay Fuller, both 20.
They are charged with capital murder in the Monday shooting death of 17-year-old Tatyanna Sherese Hannah.
They are also charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and three counts each of attempted murder.
Jefferson County Jail records show Ke’Andre Fuller was booked into the jail at 1:23 p.m. Monday. Ke’Autay Fuller was booked into the jail at 9:34 a.m.
Sheriff’s Lt. Joni Money said at about 9 a.m. Monday, the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force was conducting surveillance on a set of apartments in the 6500 block of Martin Luther King Drive in Fairfield.
During the surveillance, they observed who they believed to be Ke’Autay Fuller, enter an apartment. They were able to make contact someone in the apartment and took Ke’Autay Fuller into custody.
A short time later, a deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, who is assigned to the task force, made contact with Ke’Andre Fuller and negotiated his surrender. He was arrested about 11:30 a.m.in the 900 block of Milstead Road in Fairfield.
They are being held without bond.
Tatyanna, of Pinson, was shot while riding in a vehicle in Fairfield Monday, May 29.
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 Tatyanna suffering from gunshot wounds.
She was rushed to UAB Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 3:59 p.m.
Tatyanna had been a junior at Pinson Valley High School.
Her mother, Deshunbra Hannah, described Tatyanna as strong-willed and bull-headed but said she had a bubbly personality.
“She accepted anybody,’’ her mother said. “If anybody wanted to be her friend, she’d be their friend.”
“She was a good kid,’’ Hanna said. “Her fights that she did have, it was never her fight. She wanted to ride for her friends.”
“She was loving, and she was loved,’’ she said. “She didn’t have enemies at all.”
Hannah said Tatyanna was her first born and the two were close.
Tatyanna, however, had started hanging out with people of whom her mother didn’t approve. She had left home and also stopped going to school, her mother said.
“Although she wasn’t home, she would always pick up that phone and call me,’’ Hannah said. “She loved her mother and sister enough to pick up that phone and call.”
Tatyanna was one of two teens killed in Fairfield over the long Memorial Day weekend in linked slayings.
Jani “Cupcake” Barker, 15, was killed Saturday, May 27, and her 15-year-old boyfriend has been charged in that crime.
The suspect in Jani’s case has not been named because of his age, but he is the younger brother of the Fuller twins.
Tatyanna was in a vehicle with Jani’s older sister when she was fatally shot.
“Tatyanna was well loved, and she didn’t come from a bad background at all,’’ her mother said.
Tatyanna’s funeral is scheduled for June 10 at Brighton Funeral home. Jani’s funeral is set for Saturday as well, at Agape Missionary Baptist Church.
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