2 arrested in July Birmingham mass shooting: 1 suspect accused of killing 11 people in 2 months

The man charged with killing four people outside a hookah lounge in Five Points South in September, and two others in the days before and after, is now charged with killing four people in another Birmingham mass shooting in July and another man during an August burglary.

Damien Laron McDaniel III, 22, of Fairfield, is now accused of killing 11 people and wounding 29 others in five incidents between July and September.

He was indicted on Nov. 22 in a drive-by shooting at an adult birthday party at a Birmingham nightclub that left four people dead and nine others injured on July 13. McDaniel is also charged with 10 counts of first-degree assault in the July mass shooting.

Hatarius Woods, 27, is also charged with capital murder and 10 counts of first-degree assault in the Trendsetters mass shooting.

Woods was taken into custody at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the 1700 block of 28th Street in Ensley.

In the July mass shooting, Birmingham police identified those killed as Angela Weatherspoon, 56, of Center Point, Markeisha Gettings, 42, of Birmingham, Stevie McGhee, 39, of Birmingham, and Lerandus Anderson, 24, of Center Point.

Birmingham police said Tuesday that McDaniel, the only person charged in the mass shooting outside the Hush hookah lounge, is allegedly responsible for one-fourth of all homicides in the city in a span of two months.

“These individuals don’t just stop with one murder. I don’t think there’s a single instance that sums up that statement more than these arrests today,” Officer Truman Fitzgerald said.

”Our homicides that have been committed from July until September, about 30 percent of them involve one of these individuals’ names,’’ he said, referring to a list of suspects charged in homicides that also involve McDaniel.

”Birmingham is most definitely a safer place with these individuals behind bars.”

Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr called the suspects in the string of killings “some of the most dangerous individuals in Jefferson County.”

Carr said all of the arrests have been made through the combined efforts of Birmingham police, the ATF, the FBI, the DEA, Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Service.

“Our work is not finished,’’ Carr said. “We will continue to diligently investigate these cases to ensure that all parties involved are brought to justice.”

“This is the first step in a long process,’’ the district attorney said, “but we are going to do everything in our power to get justice for the victims, their families and the people of Jefferson County.

Efforts to reach McDaniel’s attorney were not immediately successful.

Family members of some of those killed in the Trendsetters shooting said they were relieved by the arrests.

“They didn’t deserve that,’’ said Angel Weatherspoon, who lost her mother, nephew, and sister in that shooting. “This gives us a little peace.”

Her sister, Glamorus Mullen, said the family’s fear and hurt is by no means gone.

“I can finally get some rest. I’ve been living in constant fear,’’ Mullen said. “Am I going to be next? Is one of my kids going to be next?”

“We’ve been afraid. Are they going to get the rest of us?” Mullen said. “And for what reason? We don’t know.”

The Weatherspoon and Mullen families said they don’t know McDaniel.

“He’s a straight menace,’’ Weatherspoon said. “I want to know, ‘Why?’ Who sent you?”

McDaniel and Woods are also now indicted on a charge of capital murder during a burglary in the Aug. 13 shooting death of Charlie Moore, 61.

Moore was found dead after police spotted a stolen vehicle in Vice Hills and then heard shots coming from a nearby apartment.

A North Precinct officer saw and fired at an armed suspect he saw exit the apartment. The suspect got into the passenger side of the stolen vehicle, which then sped away.

Moore was found dead inside the apartment.

Prior to the latest charges, McDaniel was already jailed in the Sept. 21 deaths of Carlos McCain, 27, Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, Anitra Holloman, 21, and Tahj Booker, 27. Those four were killed, and 17 others injured, in the Five Points South shooting.

McDaniel is also charged with murder in the Sept. 19 killing of Diontrante Tinae Brown, a 35-year-old mother who police say was an innocent bystander shot to death inside 604 Bar and Lounge on Ninth Street North.

McDaniel faces another capital murder charge in the robbery shooting death of 32-year-old Jamarcus McIntyre, who died in a hail of gunfire in the 700 block of 81st Place South less than 24 hours after the Five Points South shooting.

McDaniel, prior to his arrest, was interviewed in a YouTube documentary about violence and murder in Alabama called’This City Eats People Alive: The Most Dangerous Place in Alabama, America: The Dirty South posted by The Taboo Room With Aaron S.

Ny’Quan Cordae Lollar, 22, another suspect in McIntyre’s death, was also featured in the documentary.

They were asked if they would have any empathy toward the mothers of someone who was murdered.

“I’m (expletive) going to do the same thing to you so why not do it to them?” McDaniel said. “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).”