From Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–The Birmingham Police Department has arrested and charged a man with multiple counts of murder in the wake of a quadruple shooting last Thursday, according to BPD Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
The suspect in the shootings that claimed two lives has been identified as 31-year-old Kerry Jackson Jr.
He has been charged with two counts of capital murder and two counts of attempted murder.
On Aug. 9 at approximately 4:45 p.m., officers responded to a report of multiple people shot in the 1600 block of Dennison Avenue.
Officers arrived and entered a residence where they found an adult female who was a family friend of the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue.
The female victim has been identified Laquita Dunn, 49.
The suspect had also shot his father at the residence.
The suspect’s father was transported to Princeton Hospital by private vehicle and later hospitalized at UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Officers also learned that the suspect had fired shots into a residence in the 1400 block of 17th Place SW.
There, officers found the suspect’s grandfather, 76-year-old Anthony Jackson, and an adult female family friend suffering from gunshot wounds.
Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene.
The adult female was transported to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Police believe the shootings stemmed from a domestic argument.
“Each of the four victims is either a family member or family friend of the shooter,” Fitzgerald said.
BPD deployed numerous resources to West Birmingham following the shootings to apprehend the suspect.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office also sent their Star 1 helicopter to assist in the search for the shooter.
The U.S. Marshals Service also assisted in the search.
At 9:15 p.m., law enforcement took the suspect into custody in the Five Points West Shopping District.
Officers transported him to BPD Headquarters where BPD Homicide detectives interviewed him.
The suspect was then booked into the Birmingham City Jail under a 48-Hour Felony Extension for capital murder.
