List of homicides in 2022

This is a List of homicides in 2022, including homicide cases reported throughout the Birmingham District. At least 107 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.

Calhoun County

1. January 11: Taevion Fife, 15, died from a gunshot wound suffered during an argument at the intersection of 13th Street and Christopher Avenue in Anniston. Nathan Higgins was arrested and charged with murder. (report)
2. January 16: An unnamed woman, 36, died at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center from a gunshot wound suffered at the PURE Sports Bar & Grill at 1800 South Quintard Avenue. No arrest. (report)
3. February 14: Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, was killed in a shootout with Oxford Police following a carjacking at the Waffle House at 65 Jimmy Hinton Drive and a chase on I-20 westbound which culminated at Alabama State Highway 21 near the Anniston Regional Airport. (report)

Chilton County

1. April 11: Dante Gervaise Millner, 38, died at UAB Hospital from a gunshot wound suffered the day before during an argument on the 1200 block of 1st Avenue in Clanton. A suspect has been identified but remains at large. (report)
2. May 5: The remains of an unidentified male were found in a wooded area of Alabama State Highway 145 north of Clanton, with evidence that the death was caused by violence. No arrest. (report)

Jefferson County

76 total

Bessemer

1. February 14: Janiyah Simmons, 15, died from a gunshot wound suffered at a house on the 300 block of 30th Street South. The shooting appears to have been accidental, taking place while she and a friend were playing with a handgun. The shooter cooperated with police and is being held pending charges. (report)
2. March 27: Justin DeNorman Groom, 32, was shot to death in the parking lot outside Plush Bar & Grill at 4000 Bessemer Super Highway. The shooting was apparently part of an ongoing dispute. Larry James Knight Jr was taken into custody at the scene and later charged with murder. (report)
3. April 21: Javail Lamar Hodges, 30, died at UAB Medical West from gunshot wounds suffered on the 2400 block of Berkley Avenue in the Southside Homes public housing project. The shooter fled the scene in a vehicle. No arrest. (report)
6. May 7: Warren Oliver Weatherspoon, 48, was shot to death during an argument at 24th Street and Berkley Avenue. A 17-year-old suspect who fled the scene later turned himself in to police and was charged with murder. (report)
7. May 8: Kenneth Rechard Clark, 39 was shot to death in a car at the Bessemer Stop N Go convenience store at 2805 Dartmouth Avenue. A teenage girl was wounded. A suspect was taken into custody. (report)

Birmingham

55 homicides. See List of Birmingham homicides in 2022 for details.

Brighton

1. May 14: Brandon Dewayne Miller, 35, was found shot to death in a car stopped at the intersection of Main Street and Huntsville Avenue. No arrest. (report)

Fairfield

1. January 25: Paul Evans Smith Jr, 18, was found shot to death, and a 23-year-old male injured, on the 4000 block of DeBardeleben Avenue. De'Marco Ra'Shaun Smith (no relation) was arrested in February and charged with capital murder. (report)

Hoover

1. January 29: Madison Shea Pilkington, 25, was found beaten to death in her home at The Halston apartments. Her boyfriend and co-worker at Baumhower's Victory Grille in Vestavia Hills, Cortez Lenard Warren, was identified as a suspect and led police on a chase on I-65 northbound before pulling over. He was charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence and unlawful possession of marijuana. He was indicted by a grand jury on those charges in April. A Fultondale police officer was injured during the pursuit when his cruiser was struck by another vehicle. (report)

Hueytown

1. January 11: Kyler Small, 2, died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. His mother, Krishana Danyell Small, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. (report)

Irondale

1. January 2: McKayla Roberts, 27, was struck and killed while walking on I-20 between the Grants Mill Road and Old Leeds Road exits. The driver of a Dodge Journey believed to have hit her did not stop and is sought. (report)

Midfield

1. March 30: Steve'Terris Stubbs, 16, was shot to death and another 14 year-old male was wounded in a car-to-car assault at the intersection of Bessemer Super Highway and Woodward Road. No arrest. (report)
2. April 27: Dijon Alexander McQueen, 17, was shot to death in an assault on the 600 block of 11th Avenue. No arrest. (report)

Unincorporated Jefferson County

1. January 1: Robert Leon Doss, 36, was found dead in a wooded area off Lock 17 Road near Griffis Road west of Oak Grove. His death is being investigated as an apparent homicide. No arrest. (report)
2. January 8: John Christopher Taylor-Wilson, 20, was found shot to death near the intersection of Shady Grove Road and Porter Road in Maytown. No arrest. (report)
3. January 15: Ronda Bilbro Early, 73, was killed in a three-vehicle collision on Pinson Valley Parkway near Meadow Craft Road. One of the drivers left the scene and is sought. (report)
4. February 22: Barry Wardell Gardner, 33, an inmate at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, was found stabbed to death in an open dormitory area. No suspects or charges have been announced. ([https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2022/02/state-prison-inmate-stabbed-to-death-at-william-donaldson-correctional-facility-in-jefferson-county.html report)
5. February 25: Victor Joseph Russo, 60, an inmate at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility serving a life sentence for the 1985 murders of Robert Allen Sparks and Billy Curtis Raymond, died at UAB Hospital after suffering blunt force injuries. Correctional supervisor Mohammad Jenkins was arrested and charged with second-degree assault. (report)
6. March 1: William Eric Jennings, 49, was found dead in his cell from blunt force trauma after an assault by another inmate. No suspects or charges have been announced. (report)
7. May 5: Raymond Earl Hamilton, 57, was shot to death at his home on the 1700 block of Alliance Road in the Alliance community. His landlord, Paul Edwin Vance, was identified as a suspect. He shot himself as deputies approached his home. He was taken to UAB Hospital where he later died from his injuries. (report)

Lee County

1. March 7: Lucas Spinks Jr, 35, died from gunshot wounds suffered in an assault at a home on the 1300 block of Commerce Drive. A woman was injured in the same shooting. The suspected shooter was fatally wounded by return fire. (report)
2. March 7: An unnamed male, suspected of assaulting Spinks and another person, was found shot to death near the scene. No other suspects are sought.

Shelby County

1. January 19: Sharon Tarwater Whited, 40, was found stabbed and shot to death at her home at 156 Piney Woods Drive. Her boyfriend, John Peyton Scott III was charged with capital murder and captured five days later in St Johns County, Florida. In April Judge Bill Bostick referred the case to a grand jury to consider an indictment and ordered Scott held without bond. (report)
2. January 19: Chester Tarwater Jr, 75, was found shot to death in the same incident.
3. February 15: An unnamed male was shot to death at the doorway to a home at 321 Honeysuckle Lane in the Windstone subdivision. The shooting victim is believed to have wounded another man in an apparent domestic stabbing incident and then gone on foot, nude and reportedly in an state of "excited delirium", to other houses in the neighborhood. He was said to have been banging on the door of the house on Honeysuckle Lane before the door was opened, a struggle ensued, and he was shot to death by someone inside the home in what is presumed to have been self defense. Another person present inside that home was an Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officer. The Shelby County Major Crime Task Force is investigating. (report)
4. February 21: Denorrious Darnel Garner, 29, was found dead, and another man fatally wounded, in a one-car collision on Shelby County Road 37 near Verda Green Lane south of Columbiana that followed a chase by Shelby County Sheriff's Deputies. The deputies said they were fired upon from the car, but did not return fire. (report)
5. February 22: Skyler Austin Wilson, 26, died at UAB Hospital from injuries suffered in the same incident.

St Clair County

1. January 31: An unnamed female was found dead at the Sherwin Williams paint store at 2205 Moody Parkway in Moody. No arrest. (report)
2. January 31: Nathan L. Loot, 46, was found dead inside a home on the 1000 block of Wolf Creek Road South in Pell City. No arrest. (report)
3. February 16: Alton K. Johnson was shot to death by a juvenile during an altercation on the Hearthstone Drive area of Odenville. No arrests announced. (report)
4. April 2: The remains of Cassie Carli, 37, were found in a shallow grave in barn on property at 7826 Highway 11 in Springville. She had last been heard from before a scheduled meeting with her former boyfriend and father of her child in Navarre, Florida. Marcus Spanevelo was arrested in Tennessee. The child found unharmed. (report)
5. May 22: Florence Diane Vance, 51, was shot to death along with her two daughters at their home on Depot Street in Riverside. Her husband, William Huntoon Vance, called former Riverside police chief Rick Oliver to report having done "something terrible". He shot and killed himself after police responded. ([https://www.al.com/news/2022/05/alabama-man-who-killed-wife-two-teen-daughters-and-himself-struggled-with-mental-instability-money-problems-mayor-says.html report)
6. May 22: Samantha Vance, 16, was killed in the same incident.
7. May 22: Clara Vance, 13, was killed in the same incident.
8. May 24: Ralph E. Phillips, 58, was shot to death at a home at 7365 Old Acton Road in Moody. His husband, Myles Hope Phillips, was arrested and charged with murder. (report)

Talladega County

1. February 11: Sri Satya Krishna Chitturi, 27, was shot to death during a robbery at the Crown service station at 3694 Old Birmingham Highway (Talladega County Road 511), at the intersection of Skyview Road in the Town of Oak Grove, just northwest of Sylacauga. No arrest. (report)
2. March 3: Nancy Elaine Arnold, 40, was found dead on Cemetery Lane in Childersburg. No arrest. (report)
3. April 2: Jeremiah Curry, 14, was shot to death in the Knoxville Homes community in Talladega. A $1,000 reward has been offered for information in the case. No arrest. (report)
4. April 30: Spencer Lamar Reeves, 25, died at Citizens Medical Center from gunshot wounds suffered during a drive-by assault on East Sloan Avenue in Talladega. Keontae Threatt and Shu'n'tavis Twyman have been identified as suspects. Threatt was arrested and charged with capital murder. Twyman remains at large. (report)

Tuscaloosa County

1. February 8: Dennis Melton, 27, was struck by a car while walking alongside I-59/20, close to mile marker 76 in southwestern Tuscaloosa. Witnesses reported to investigators that the incident appeared to have been intentional. Angelica Quintana was arrested and charged with murder. (report)
2. March 17: Tacara Moton, 27, was found dead at a home on the 3500 block of McKenzie Avenue in Tuscaloosa. Her boyfriend, Jonathan Lawayne Peeble, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. (report)
3. March 28: Lamont LaKeith Cameron, 26, was killed and a 25-year-old female wounded in a car-to-car assault on the 3000 block of 27th Street. A 4-year-old in the car was uninjured. No arrest. (report)
4. May 11: Eric Shane Hatter, 42, was one of two people found dead in a burned mobile home on the 1900 block of Garber Street in the Holt community. No arrest. (report)
5. May 11: Hatter's girlfriend was found dead in the same burned home.

Walker County

1. May 26: An unnamed person was one of two found shot to death after a reported home invasion near 4th Avenue Northeast and Marlin Jordan Road in Carbon Hill. Another person was injured. No arrest.
2. May 26: A second person was killed in the same incident.