7 Dead, 10 Injured in 'Tragic Day' of Gun Violence in Birmingham, Ala.

Federal investigators are looking into back-to-back shootings that claimed the lives of seven people ranging in age from 5 to 56 years old

In one night, seven people were killed and another 10 injured in two separate shootings in Birmingham, Ala., prompting the police chief to say at a press conference that he was "sick and tired" of the violence.

Around 5:20 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, police were dispatched to the site of a car accident in the 1700 block of Indian Summer Drive.

There, officers came upon a shot-up vehicle wrecked in the front yard of a residence, with three people who had been fatally shot inside. Five-year-old Landon Brooks and his mother, Arkia Berry, 28, were pronounced dead at the scene, along with a 28-year-old male identified as Eric Ashley, Jr.

Then, less than six hours later, around 11:08 p.m., the second shooting – this one outside an event center at a city park – claimed another four lives and injured 10 others.

No one has been arrested in either case, although Birmingham police believe that both shootings were targeted, Chief Scott Thurmond said at a recorded press conference Sunday, July 14. Thurmond said the shootings, in such close succession, represented “probably the most tragic day in my time at the Birmingham Police Department.”

Calling Saturday night’s triple and quadruple homicides “terribly unacceptable,” Thurmond said that he had deployed “all of our detectives in the Birmingham Police Department” to investigate the two shootings.

“We will not tolerate this behavior any longer in our city,” Thurmond said. “There are too many families who have been devastated and destroyed because of gun violence in our city, and everyone in this room, to be frank, is just sick and tired of it, and it has to stop today.”

When Birmingham police arrived at the scene of the quadruple homicide on the 3400 block of 27th Street North, they observed multiple gunshot victims inside and just outside an unspecified event center, which was previously described by police as a nightclub.

Stevie McGhee, 39, who was found on the sidewalk, was pronounced dead on the scene, according to police.

Inside, Markeisha Gettings, 42, and Angela Weatherspoon, 56, were also pronounced dead.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service rushed Lerandus Anderson to the hospital, where medical staff pronounced the 24-year-old dead.

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Ten other gunshot victims were transported to the hospital by first responders or in private vehicles, with their conditions ranging from stable to critical, per police.

Thurmond declined to discuss potential motives for either of the shootings at Sunday’s press conference, but in a press release, the Birmingham Police Department said that according to investigators’s preliminary findings, “an altercation ensued” at a birthday party held at the event center.

Following the altercation — the timing of which was unknown to investigators at the time of the press release — “at least one suspect drove by in a vehicle and fired shots from the street” into the event center and that “detectives are working to determine if the shooting stemmed from the altercation.”

Federal law enforcement personnel responded to both shooting scenes Saturday and are assisting Birmingham police in both investigations.

Urging community members to aid in the investigations, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said at Sunday’s press conference that law enforcement were unified in a single priority: “and that is simply to hunt down the people who commit these heinous acts.”

Their grieving loved ones, he added, “deserve swift justice.”

If you have information about either of these shootings, you may contact Birmingham Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers – where you could be eligible for as much as a $5,000 award for tips – at 205-254-7777.

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