CRIME & SAFETY
2 dead, more than a dozen injured in 3 Alabama mass shootings Sunday
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — TheGun Violence Archive lists any shooting with four or more victims as a mass shooting. So far, according to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been more than 145 mass shootings in 2024. Three of those mass shootings took place in Alabama on Sunday. Tuscaloosa. One...
Trussville police investigating apparent knife attack between two people at hotel
TRUSSVILLE, Ala. — One person was injured after an apparent knife attack in Trussville. The Trussville Police Department reported that two people were involved in some kind of incident at the Quality Inn hotel on Norrell Drive about 8:15 p.m. May 7. One person did suffer multiple injuries and...
Birmingham capital murder suspect extradited to Alabama nearly 2 years after beloved jeweler killed
One of two charged in the slaying of a beloved Birmingham husband, father, and jeweler, has been extradited to Alabama nearly two years after the killing. Joshua Jermaine Burns, 22, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail late Tuesday night, jail records show. He and 20-year-old Jayveon Khiry Fleming, 18...
Search underway for 4 teens who ran away from inpatient Birmingham facility, police say
A search is underway for four teen boys who ran away from a Birmingham facility. East Precinct officers responded shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday to a report of the juvenile runaways from an inpatient facility on the city’s eastside. The name of the facility has not been disclosed. Police...
Arrests mount in Birmingham’s continued crackdown on exhibition driving, street racing
The number of people arrested in a Birmingham police operation targeting exhibition driving and street racing continues to rise. Four men were arrested over the weekend as part of Operation Knight Rider. In addition to the arrests, police impounded three vehicles – two of them stolen- and seized two handguns.
‘I was afraid I’d die’: Birmingham woman’s capital murder charge dismissed as slain husband’s family speaks up for her
A capital murder charge has been dismissed against a Birmingham woman in the 2021 fatal shooting of her husband after his family spoke in her defense. Jasmine Mari Drake, 32, was charged in the April 1, 2021 slaying of 44-year-old Louis Bryant. The charge was capital because Bryant was killed...
Young man found shot to death in front yard in East Lake, police say
A young man was found shot to death Tuesday lying in the front yard of a home in East Lake, police said. East Precinct officers responded to the 6800 block of 1st Avenue South on multiple calls of a person shot, said Sgt. LaQuitta Wade. Officers found the victim lying...
Birmingham sues Third Avenue West businesses for being a ‘launching pad for criminal activity’
The City of Birmingham is suing the owners and operators of the Shell station on Third Avenue West and an adjacent business after a weekend shooting in the parking lot left one man dead and six others injured. More than 150 bullets were unleashed in the predawn incident on Sunday.
Center Point man charged in Birmingham murder
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–A Center Point man was arrested on Thursday in connection to the murder of Terry Dewayne Hinson, who was shot and killed on April 28 in the Ensley area, according to BPD Officer Truman Fitzgerald. On April 28 at approximately 3:22 pm, West Precinct officers responded to a...
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