MONTGOMERY, Ala.– An Alabama male charged with eliminating 4 individuals in September has actually now been charged with capital murder in a different quadruple murder that occurred in July, according to police authorities.

Damien McDaniel, 22, has actually been jailed and charged with capital murder in connection with the July 13 mass shooting outside of a nightclub in Birmingham that left 4 individuals dead and 10 others injured, Officer Truman Fitzgerald revealed at an interview Tuesday night. McDaniel is likewise implicated of 3 different deadly shootings that occurred on 3 different days in August and September.

Another male, Hatarius Woods, 27, was likewise charged with capital murder in connection with the July mass shooting.

” These people drew back in July, and they did not stop from September,” stated Fitzgerald. “We typically state on these criminal offense scenes that we have a couple of choose lawbreakers that contribute to this criminal offense and offer Birmingham a bad name.”

Woods and McDaniel are presumably accountable for around 30% of all murders that occurred in the city in between July and September, Fitzgerald stated. Lawyers for Woods and McDaniel did not react to emailed ask for remark.

Including the charges revealed Tuesday, McDaniel is implicated of eliminating 11 individuals and injuring 29 others in 5 different occurrences over 2 months– one of those charges is in connection with the Sept. 21 mass shooting beyond a various bar, where 4 individuals were fatally shot and 17 others hurt.

Fitzgerald stated on Tuesday that there were “numerous shooters” in the September mass shooting, and the examination is continuous. The September shooting was Birmingham’s 3rd mass shooting of the year.

Birmingham went beyond the decades-long murder record embeded in 2022 after a deadly shooting Sunday marked the 145th murder in 2024.

In a 30-minute long video released Tuesday night, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin beinged in front of a table with 145 weapons on it to represent the variety of murders in the city considering that the start of the year. He urged state lawmakers to assist him attend to the widespread weapon violence throughout the city.

” Even if I offer you more officers on our streets, individuals are still lawfully permitted to drive around with these kinds of weapons,” Woodfin stated, gesturing to the weapons in front of him. Woodfin stated he supported the Second Amendment however likewise wished to let citizens throughout the city choose whether to position more constraints on weapon allowing.

” If I was a wagering male, I would think the citizens of Birmingham have actually had enough of this and wish to see more weapon security laws in location that safeguard individuals in Birmingham, however that needs to originate from a level greater than me,” Woodfin stated.

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Safiyah Riddle is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a not-for-profit nationwide service program that positions reporters in regional newsrooms to report on undercovered concerns.