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 46 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

38 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.

Birmingham

23 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)

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)

Hoover

1. February 14: Shemethia Tynise Coteat, 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)

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)

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)

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: An unidentified person was found dead off of Alabama State Highway 269. A suspect was taken into custody. (report)