List of homicides in 2020

This is a List of homicides in 2020, including homicide cases reported throughout the Birmingham District. To date, at least 78 homicides have been reported in the area for the year. Note that a "homicide" refers to the cause of death as determined by a medical examiner, not to the crime of murder as charged by prosecutors and adjudicated through the courts.

Jefferson County

66 total

Bessemer

1. February 9: Zykeith Peavy, 17, was shot to death during an illegal gun purchase on the 4600 block of Little Drive. A 15-year-old suspect was taken into custody and charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm. (report)
2. February 25: The remains of Karen Joyce Scott, missing since December 2018, were found in a manhole in the 3100 block of Exeter Alley. There was evidence that she died from a gunshot wound. No arrest. (report)
3. March 21: Christopher Edward Tillman, 39, was shot to death when a fight broke out during a gathering on the 2900 block of Long 14th Street. No arrest. (report)
4. March 21: Jason Mendiola, 21, was one of two people shot to death when a fight broke out during a gathering on the 600 block of Bell Street. A 17-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with capital murder. (report)
5. March 21: Javier Monzon Mendoza, 21, was also killed in that shooting.
6. March 30: Sean Rose, 12, was killed by a gunshot at his home at 505 29th Street North. His 16-year-old brother was charged with reckless manslaughter. (https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020/04/teen-charged-in-shooting-death-of-12-year-old-brother-in-bessemer.html report])
7. April 2: Earnest Lee Cunningham Jr, 26, was found shot to death on the 3300 block of 12th Avenue North. Christopher Tanks was arrested and charged with murder. (report)
8. April 8: Jeffery S. Burke, 36, was stabbed to death at a home on the 1700 block of Fairfax Alley. The suspect, Alexander Tubbs, had reported a home invasion. Investigators determined that the two were acquainted and had been involved in a dispute. He was taken into custody but has not yet been charged. (report)
10. May 4: Torie Demarcus Bouyer, 41, was shot to death near 6th Avenue North behind the 4th Avenue Supermarket. No arrest. (report)

Birmingham

39 homicides. See List of Birmingham homicides in 2020 for details.

Brighton

1. February 12: Gerald Clifton Bell, 57, was found dead from an apparent homicide on the 4000 block of 4th Avenue Brighton. Jason Green has been charged with capital murder, murder and theft of property, but remains at large. (report)
2. April 11: An unidentified man was stabbed to death at the Holiday Mobile Home Park following an altercation at the Everyday Store on Bessemer Super Highway. Jesus Rodriquez, who was injured in the fight, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. (report)

Center Point

1. February 25: Delquan McNeily, 21, was shot to death at Corey's Barber & Styles at 10 20th Court Northwest, off Center Point Parkway. The shooting was ruled justifiable and no charges were filed. (report)

Fairfield

1. March 9: Octavia Nicole Johnson, 20, died at UAB Hospital from injuries suffered in a vehicle collision near mile marker 119 on I-20/59. Investigators determined that the cause of the crash was a street race between Kevin Lamar King and Keanjra Lashai Maddox, who was driving the car in which Johnson was riding. They were both arrested and charged with reckless manslaughter. (report)

Hoover

1. February 14: Shemethia Tynise Coteat Stanton, 41, was shot to death in an apparent targeted assault in the parking lot of The Park at Wakefield apartments off Tyler Road. A dark-colored four-door sedan was seen leaving the scene. No arrest. (report)

Irondale

1. February 25: Derrick Gerod Marks, 25, was shot to death in the parking lot of the Hunter Ridge Apartments off of Gadsden Highway. No arrest. (report)

Leeds

1. January 20: James Brody Sargent, 19, died at Grandview Medical Center from gunshot wounds suffered during a dispute over a marijuana sale at a residence on Kings Forest Drive. Anthony Widner was taken into custody and charged with murder. Though the crime took place in Jefferson County, he was held at the St Clair County Jail. (report)

Midfield

1. April 1: The remains of Tiffany Osborne, 30, missing since February 17 from her home in Midfield, were found wrapped up under a discarded mattress on the 4200 block of Turin Drive, off Lakeshore Parkway in Bessemer. No arrest. (report)

Mountain Brook

1. April 16: Jack Henry Moody, 23, was struck and killed while riding his motorcycle on U.S. Highway 280 as it crosses Overton Road. He was struck by a light-colored utility van which left the scene. No arrest. (report)

Trussville

1. April 1: Trent Thomas Parkerson, 18, was shot to death in a vehicle outside his house on the 7600 block of Happy Hollow Road. Steven Chase Lafoy was taken into custody and charged with capital murder. (report)

Vestavia Hills

1. February 8: Douglas Harold Hart, 67, was shot to death in an exchange of gunfire with a Vestavia Hills Police officer on the 4400 block of Old Overton Road, near a Cahaba River boat launch. Police had responded to a call about a man wielding a gun, possibly threatening suicide. The Alabama State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the incident. (report)

Unincorporated Jefferson County

1. February 4: Nick O'Rear, 33, a Kimberly Police Department officer was shot and killed while attempting to intercept a suspect vehicle on I-65 South. Warrior police began the chase near Exit 281 in Warrior. Preston Cheyenne Johnson and three others were captured later near Dora in Walker County. Johnson was charged with capital murder and attempted murder and booked into the Jefferson County Jail. (report)
2. February 5: Kaiden Ford, 2, was found unresponsive at a home on the 1100 block of Florentine Circle in an unincorporated area surrounded by Birmingham's Spring Lake neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital. Sylvester Corderyl Taylor, Ford's mother's boyfriend, was arrested and charged with capital murder. He previously pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter in the 2014 death of Angela McCall and had been sentenced to 15 years in prison. (report)
3. February 10: The body of Sean Caribe Avant Jr, 18, who was reported missing four days earlier, was found on the shore of Bayview Lake, below Mulga Loop Road just past the bridge on Bayview Drive. No arrest. (report)
4. February 21: Avonte Damall Washington, 19, was shot to death on the 1200 block of Birchwood Street in an unincorporated area surrounded by Birmingham's Killough Springs neighborhood. Investigators determined that the deadly shooting was caused by reckless handling of a firearm. The shooter, Jauvon Travis Leonard, was then injured by gunshot as he fled the scene. He was arrested and charged with reckless manslaughter. (report)
5. April 20: Taylor Akin, 16, was killed when the car he was riding in rear ended a vehicle turning onto CCC Road from of 15th Street Road, west of Concord. Investigators determined that the car was moving at about 115 mph at the time of the collision. The driver, a 17-year-old male, was charged with manslaughter. (report)
6. May 1: Troy Ellis, 11, died from a gunshot injury suffered while on a hunting trip near Cedar Mountain Road west of Ayres. His father suffered minor wounds from the same incident. Joshua Stewart Burks, a member of the hunting party, was charged with reckless manslaughter. (report)

Shelby County

1. April 14: Tyler Olds, 21, was shot to death at theWolf Creek Apartments on the 800 block of Shelby Street in Montevallo. No arrest. (report)

Talladega County

1. January 21: Holli Christina Durham, 36, was found stabbed to death, along with two of her children, at her home at 150 Roy Lackey Lane in Munford. Her older son, Landon Hudson Durham, was arrested and charged with capital murder. (report)
2. January 21: Branson Durham, 13, was found at the same house.
3. January 21: Baron Durham, 13, was found at the same house.

Tuscaloosa County

1. January 1: Carla Fluker Mack, 49, was shot to death at her home on the 21000 block of Tammie Drive in Lake View. Her ex-boyfriend, Carl Evans Boyd, was seen leaving the house. He was arrested the next day and charged with murder. (report)
2. February 18: Darrieon Dewayne Dees, 22, was shot to death near the intersection of 24th Street and Fosters Ferry Avenue in Tuscaloosa. Dees and Deramus Devalle Harris had assaulted another group of males who returned fire, killing Dees. Harris, believed to have instigated the assault, was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder. (report)
3. March 9: An unnamed male was shot to death on the campus of Stillman College. A person of interest was taken into custody. (report)
4. April 26: Dominic Coleman, 20, was shot to death in a gunfight involving multiple cars in the vicinity of the Winston Mart at 2503 Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. Nathaniel Patton was arrested and charged with murder. (report)
5. April 29: Xzavier Eatmon, 18, was shot to death at the Winston Mart at 2503 Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. Lamarcus Keon McNeal was arrested and charged with murder. (report)

Walker County

1. March 7: The remains of Lisa Warren, 51, was found in Sims Creek off of Greene County Road 220 near I-20/59 Exit 53. Investigators determined that she died from injuries sustained at her home on 10 Street Northeast in Carbon Hill. Her husband, Robert Perry Warren, an appointed member of the Carbon Hill City Council, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. That charge was later upgraded to murder as evidence showed she had been struck repeatedly. (report)
2. March 25: Stacey Hogan (Campbell), 50, was found dead from blunt force trauma in her mobile home on the 4000 block of Alabama State Highway 269. Her boyfriend, Michael Gene Bolin, had reported a robbery but was soon identified as a suspect. He was taken into custody with formal charges pending. (report)
3. March 27: Mark Simmons was found shot to death and another female wounded by gunshot on the 3800 block of Alabama State Highway 69 south of Oakman. Dustin Paul Morgan was identified as a suspect. He fled from police on a motorcycle and was captured in Morgan County after a long chase. He was charged with murder and attempted murder, along with other crimes. (report)