Accused Birmingham mass killer Damien McDaniel is now dealing with three extra capital homicide costs, together with the Valentine’s Day 2024 taking pictures deaths of a younger couple anticipating their first youngster.
The younger couple was Angeliyah Webster and Chris Norris, each 20.
McDaniel, 22, of Fairfield, is now additionally charged within the 2023 killing of 52-year-old Reginald Bryant, Birmingham police introduced Wednesday.
See additionally: These are the 14 different homicides linked to Damien McDaniel
McDaniel now stands accused of killing 18 individuals – together with the unborn child – and wounding 30 others in a span of roughly 14 months.
The most recent costs embody two counts of capital homicide of two or extra individuals within the killings of Webster, Norris and their unborn son, who was to be named Seven.
He’s additionally charged with capital homicide throughout a theft in Bryant’s Nov. 27, 2023, taking pictures dying on Closhire Lane in Pratt Metropolis. Bryant’s truck was stolen.
Lorenzo Wiley(Jefferson County Jail)
Lorenzo Marquise Wiley, 30, can also be charged with capital homicide in Bryant’s killing.
Wiley, additionally from Fairfield, was charged Jan. 15, 2025, within the Bessemer Cutoff with hindering prosecution.
That cost is reportedly linked to a automobile used within the Hush mass taking pictures, and the killing the next evening of Jamarcus McIntyre in east Birmingham.
Reginald Bryant, 52, was shot to dying Nov. 27, 2023, exterior his Pratt Metropolis dwelling.(Contributed)
In Bryant’s slaying, police began receiving calls about 4 p.m. that Monday of gunfire in Pratt Metropolis. As soon as on the scene, they discovered Bryant lifeless in a grassy space close to the woods behind a house.
Investigators imagine Bryant was approached by a number of suspects who fired on him in a focused assault. Police marked a minimum of 18 shell casings on the street.
“We’re dealing with a violent group of individuals,” Officer Truman Fitzgerald stated on the time. “There were a lot of shots fired in this incident.”
Angeliyah ne-vaeh Jolie Webster and Christan Tyre Norris(Contributed)
Within the homicide of Webster, Norris and Seven, the couple was seen about 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, within the 1500 block of twentieth Place in Ensley.
They have been believed to be on their strategy to a film date at an unknown theater. They have been in a white Ford Taurus.
As time handed, the households started to fret. And so they started to go looking, rising extra frantic with every passing hour.
The households filed a report with the Birmingham Police Division which issued bulletins for the couple late Thursday evening.
On Friday Feb. 16, the household additionally went to the dealership the place Norris had purchased his automotive. They have been in a position to “ping” the automobile’s basic location to someplace in Wylam.
The household then headed that means, as did Birmingham police detectives who independently realized of a attainable location for the Taurus.
Simply earlier than 4 p.m. that day, Webster and Norris have been discovered lifeless in Norris’s Taurus within the 4100 block of tenth Avenue in Wylam.
Each Webster and Norris have been enthusiastic about turning into dad and mom and have been trying ahead to their upcoming gender reveal.
The Disney-inspired occasion was set for April 6, and it was there that family and friends would discover out if the child was going to a “Moana” or a “Maui.”
‘I can start healing and getting justice’
Webster’s mom, Temecia Sistrunk, stated information of the arrest is a solution to the prayers she’s been praying to listen to for 16 months.
Detectives notified her earlier right now.
“You know how you be waiting and waiting and waiting but when it came I was not ready,” she stated. “It truly took me back to that Friday, February 16, 2024, when the bodies was found.”
“But Angeliyah, baby Seven and Christian was actually lured and murdered on February 14, 2024, a day that is the symbol of love will always be a nightmare on my street,” Sistrunk stated.
“As we approach Mother’s Day this Sunday it would have been Angeliyah’s first Mother’s Day, but she’s not with me on earth anymore more. This Mother’s Day is still and will always be different for me and yes I wish that I could spend it with my babies Liyah, Baby Seven and Christian.”
“How I wish it could bring them back, but I’m grateful that we have a person that responsible for their murders and I will fight like hell to make sure that justice will be served,” she stated.
Norris’s mom, Lisa Norris, stated information of the arrest is bittersweet.
“I’m happy and sad at the same time,” Norris stated. “This past year has been challenging…but I can start healing and getting justice for my babies.”
McDaniel’s alleged 14-month murder spree
McDaniel’s different instances instances embody two mass shootings that every left 4 lifeless – one at Trendsetters lounge that killed 4 individuals and wounded 10 others, and the second at Hush Lounge that killed 4 individuals and wounded 17 others.
He and 5 others are charged with capital homicide within the Sept. 22, 2024, ambush taking pictures dying of 32-year-old Jamarcus McIntyre throughout a theft of his backpack.
That killing, captured on dwelling surveillance video and chronicled in textual content messages, occurred the evening after the Hush bloodbath.
McDaniel can also be charged with capital murder-for-hire involving the 2023 ambush killing of Birmingham Firefighter Jordan Melton, the capital murder-for rent within the 2024 taking pictures dying of UPS employee Anthony Love, and the 2024 deadly taking pictures of Mia Nickson exterior her household’s dwelling.
McDaniel is charged with intentional homicide within the Sept. 19, 2024, taking pictures dying of Diontranet Tinae Brown, a 35-year-old mom who police say was an harmless bystander shot to dying inside 604 Bar and Lounge on Ninth Road North, and the Aug. 13, 2024 killing of 61-year-old Charlie Moore, additionally an untended goal.
What we learn about Damien McDaniel
What little is publicly identified about McDaniel’s previous comes from courtroom data, information experiences and a brief interview he gave in a YouTube documentary about Birmingham violence.
McDaniel, then 17, was arrested at Fairfield Excessive Faculty for an October 2019 case wherein two individuals have been shot at in Fairfield.
He pleaded responsible on April 26, 2023, to 2 counts of tried homicide. He was sentenced to fifteen years in jail with two years to serve adopted by three years of probation.
The week earlier than Birmingham police introduced McDaniel’s arrest within the Hush bloodbath, Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff Chief Assistant District Legal professional Lane Tolbert filed a movement to revoke McDaniel’s probation within the 2019 tried homicide instances.
McDaniel, prosecutors contended, violated his probation phrases by partaking in “injurious and vicious” habits. He was recorded on social media brandishing firearms a minimum of 9 occasions between April 1, 2024, by way of Oct. 1.
His probation was revoked on Dec. 12, and he’s now being held in state jail.
There was criticism in regards to the sentence and probation on the Fairfield instances – which put McDaniel again on the streets.
Tolbert stated they have been lucky to acquire a conviction by means of McDaniel’s responsible plea — and the 15 12 months cut up sentence of time served awaiting trial and probation.
Prosecutors, he stated, had “no one” who was keen to return ahead with data.
“When you don’t have any witness cooperation, like in most of his instances, due to worry in all probability, we have been fortunate to get that,’’ Tolbert stated.
“He wasn’t ‘released early,’’’ Tolbert said. “He got what he got because no one was willing to cooperate.”
McDaniel had a minimum of a half-dozen arrests as a juvenile which have been both dismissed or ended with him being given probation. These costs ranged from being a juvenile in possession of a gun to giving false data to police.
In 2021, he was arrested by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace on an tried homicide cost, however he would later inform investigators the grand jury didn’t indict him.
He was additionally arrested by Vestavia Hills police on costs of trafficking cocaine, heroin and meth. The disposition of these costs was not out there.
McDaniel is the daddy of two youngsters who have been final identified to stay in Georgia. He described his relationship along with his youngsters to investigators as “poor.”
McDaniel’s personal father, 43-year-old Damien Laron McDaniel Jr., is in federal jail in Kentucky. He was sentenced to 26 years in 2013 for trafficking cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
His father’s arrest in that case got here after a six-hour standoff with U.S. Marshals in Adamsville. The older McDaniel was described in information experiences as a former chief of the Bloods gang within the Fairfield space.
When McDaniel III was 5-years-old, his father was charged with the deadly 2007 taking pictures dying of 23-year-old Cedric Burch in Fairfield two months after McDaniel Jr. and others allegedly poured gasoline on Burch and set him on hearth.
On the time of that murder, McDaniel Jr. was out on bond for taking pictures Burch’s brother and had already served a minimum of a part of a ten 12 months sentence for possessing cocaine.
The case was nol prossed, and Damien McDaniel Jr. by no means went to trial for the slaying.
His son was just a few months shy of his twelfth birthday when McDaniel Jr. acquired the 26 12 months sentence. Damien McDaniel Jr. is scheduled to be launched in 2037, in line with the federal jail system.
The youthful McDaniel beforehand labored at a Walmart, however that job ended along with his 2019 instances.
He attended Fairfield Excessive Preparatory Faculty till his junior 12 months, leaving in 2019 when he was arrested. Throughout his time in highschool, he had been suspended for combating.
McDaniel instructed investigators in 2023 that he was prescribed psychotropic medicines for numerous psychological well being points, nevertheless he stopped taking them throughout his time in jail. He additionally reported having remedy a few occasions every week.
Ny’Quan Cordae Lollar and Damien McDaniel in a Youtube documentary.Screengrab
McDaniel, previous to his arrest within the Hush shootings, was interviewed in a YouTube documentary about violence and homicide in Alabama referred to as ‘This Metropolis Eats Folks Alive: The Most Harmful Place in Alabama, America: The Soiled South posted by The Taboo Room With Aaron S.
Ny’Quan Cordae Lollar, 22, one other suspect in McIntyre’s dying, was additionally featured within the documentary.
They have been requested if they might have any empathy towards the moms of somebody who was murdered.
“I’m (expletive) going to do the same thing to you so why not do it to them?” McDaniel stated. “Why show them compassion when they ain’t gonna show your folks compassion?”
“They ain’t sparing (expletive),” Lollar says.
“They ain’t going to spare me,’’ McDaniel said. “If their son ends up dead and they come to court, they ain’t going to spare me in the mother (expletive) courtroom. They’re going to want my ass (inaudible).”
