From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
PIEDMONT — One man is dead and another one is in jail after a deadly shooting Tuesday, April 9.
Jessie James Beecham, 23, is charged with murder. The Piedmont Police Department said officers responded to the shooting at a home in the 4000 block of Old Piedmont Gadsden Highway.
Joseph Solomon Nicholas Haywood, 40, was taken from the scene to Gadsden RMC with a gunshot wound to the chest. Haywood was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Beecham was arrested and is currently in the Calhoun County Jail on $60,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on May 6.
The shooting was investigated by the Piedmont Police Department and JSU-Center for Applied Forensics.