Attorneys for twin brothers charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old girl in Fairfield on Memorial Day claim their clients fired in self-defense.

Ke’Andre Fuller and Ke’Autay Fuller, both 20, are charged in the May 29 slaying of Tatyanna Sherese Hannah.

The deadly shooting happened while Hannah was in a vehicle with friends that Monday afternoon at the intersection of Overlook Place and Hillside Drive.

The Fullers are also charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and three counts each of attempted murder.

The brothers appeared in a Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff courtroom Friday morning for a preliminary hearing.

New information revealed publicly for the first time during the hearing included the existence of a gas station video that showed someone in an SUV firing a shot at Ke’Andre Fuller just eight minutes before the shooting that left Hannah dead.

It was also revealed that a teen girl in that SUV is charged with attempted murder without provocation for shooting at Ke’Andre Fuller in that earlier shooting.

That same teen girl was in a different car minutes later – as well as Hannah – when Hannah was shot and killed.

A Jefferson County sheriff’s detective also testified that projectiles were found in the car that Hannah was in when she was killed. The detective testified he couldn’t say if those were from someone shooting at Ke’Andre Fuller first, if they were from return fire or if they had been fired at some time in the past.

Ke’Andre Fuller is represented by Emory Anthony and Rolando Ranking. Ke’Autay Fuller is represented by Hiram Griffin and Christopher Davis.

Assistant District Attorneys Shawnte Lee and Adrienne Belcher are prosecuting.

The hearing, before District Judge Thomas Thrash, lasted nearly two hours. The courtroom was packed with family members of the victim and also the Fullers.

Roughly a dozen armed law enforcement officers were brought in for extra security.

At the conclusion of the hearing, Anthony and Griffin asked that the charges be dismissed, saying they believe the shooting was in self-defense.

Additionally, the defense attorneys were clearly upset that they had not been told by prosecutors that someone had shot at Ke’Andre Fuller and that someone had been charged.

“First, let’s talk about this detective and the state of Alabama’s legal responsibility. Exculpatory material was withheld from us that this young man was shot at by the car that the car this victim was in,’’ Anthony said. “They didn’t give that to us. That’s exculpatory. They’re required to.”

“How do we know it’s exculpatory?’’ Anthony said. “He charged the lady with shooting at my client.”

“My client went back to where his girlfriend was,’’ Anthony said. “They changed cars, got into another car with the same victim that was in the first car that shot at my client and two shell casings are in the new car. My client was defending himself.”

Defense attorney Griffin echoed Anthony.

“The state of Alabama has failed to show probable cause that this happened without self-defense. The co-defendant was shot at minutes before – two shots at least came out of the car at my client,’’ Griffin said. “My client acted in self-defense. Additionally, we did not receive the evidence and did not know (the juvenile girl) had been arrested.”

Lee said prosecutors were not withholding evidence from the attorneys and said they had proven probable cause.

Judge Thrash did find there was probable cause to send the case to a grand jury, saying: “I do not believe this is the proper time to weigh in on whether it was self-defense. I’m going to leave that to trial if it makes it that far.”

“But I would say this, (defense) council makes an interesting argument in that they have asked for certain things and have not been told certain things,’’ the judge said. “I don’t know but it sounds like they were not told a shooting had occurred involving the same people.”

Emory told the court that he doesn’t think a jury will convict the brothers and said they should at least be given a reasonable bond under the circumstances.

The prosecutors disagreed.

“These defendants are a danger to the community,’’ Lee said. “These are very violent cases. They were waiting for these people to come up and they shot and killed Tatyanna Hannah.”

Thrash took the issue of bond under advisement.

The Fullers are the older brothers of a 15-year-old charged with murder in the June 27 shooting death of his girlfriend – Jani “Cupcake” Barker – two days prior to Hannah’s slaying.

Jani’s sister, Syna Barker, was in the vehicle with Hannah when the 17-year-old was killed.

Jefferson County sheriff’s Det. Jeremy Reed was the lone witness during Friday’s hearing.

Reed said patrol deputies told him they found a blue sedan that had crashed into a tree and come under gunfire.

Two victims were found shot multiple times – Hannah in the back seat, and Syna Barker’s boyfriend, Noah Mack, who had been driving the vehicle.

Reed said a neighbor had recorded part of the aftermath of the shooting through her window on her cell phone. He spoke with that neighbor, as well as Barker and another juvenile female who was in the vehicle at the time of the shooting.

Barker told investigators the group was running errands but were headed back to Barker’s home after being summoned there by her mother.

“They observed two individuals standing with firearms on the sidewalk,’’ Reed said. Those two men with guns were later identified as the Fuller brothers, and the detective said one was holding a pistol and the other was holding a short-barreled AR rifle.

Barker said they tried to leave, made a U-turn but instead struck a tree. “At which point the gunmen opened fire on their vehicle,’’ Reed said.

Reed said the other juvenile female in the car provided the same account of what happened.

Reed said he also spoke at some point with Ke’Andre Fuller but said Ke’Autay Fuller would not speak with him.

Reed said he interviewed Barker on three separate occasions. It was in one of the later interviews, and only when asked, that Barker said she had been in a different vehicle – a black crossover SUV – minutes earlier when her friend – the other juvenile female – had used a pistol to fire a shot a Ke’Andre Fuller.

The two shootings took place roughly eight minutes apart.

In the first vehicle – the black SUV – was Barker, Hannah, Barker’s female cousin, the driver and the juvenile female. They were initially going to run errands but they went home to get Barker’s wallet.

As they were driving, they spotted Ke’Andre Fuller, and at that point the juvenile fired one round through an open window at Fuller.

In the third interview with Barker, Reed testified, she was asked if she knew if the juvenile female still had a gun once they had gotten out of the SUV and into the blue sedan. “She stated she believed she was but was not sure,’’ Reed said.

The shot fired at Ke’Andre Fuller was captured on store surveillance footage at a nearby Citgo on Valley Road.

Reed said the video showed the SUV pass the gas station and Ke’Andre Fuller walking through an alley and onto the parking lot.

“He suddenly appears to dive for cover behind a vehicle there, and several other people seem to look around as if something unexpected occurred,’’ he said, adding that his training led him to believe it was a gunshot.

Ke’Andre Fuller is then seen running, “as if he’s pursuing the vehicle,’’ Reed said.

He said another vehicle then showed up, a man got out and ran up the alley. He said the two met in the alley and then walked back toward Avenue C together.

He said after the shooting at the blue sedan, he said the brothers were seen running, both armed, toward the Citgo gas station.

Reed said Barker’s mother and her uncle heard multiple shots shortly after she had called Barker and told her to come home. The mother and uncle went to the scene.

“They’d had another family member killed just days before (15-year-old Jani Barker) and they were worried that this may be possibly related to something that happened that day,’’ Reed said.

As they exited their vehicle, Barker’s uncle told Reed that he was approached by the two gunmen and told them he didn’t want any trouble, he was just checking on the occupants of the sedan.

Reed said when he himself got to the scene, he found multiple spent shell casings, and the sedan had multiple bullet holes.

Several projectiles were also recovered from the back floorboard of the sedan, as well as several shell casings.

Reed said the juvenile girl – who was in both the SUV and blue sedan – was charged with attempted murder of Ke’Andre Fuller in connection with the shot fired out of the SUV.

He said they did not recover any weapons in connection with the deadly shooting.

After the shooting, the brothers ran back to Citgo .Ke’Andre got into a truck and left. Ke’Autray ran somewhere else.

Both were taken into custody about a week later.

Anthony asked the detective when he first received the Citgo video of someone shooting at his client. Reed said that video was received several weeks later but couldn’t give Anthony an exact date.

“This started out with these people shooting at my client, correct?” Anthony said.

Reed replied, “Some people shooting at your client.”

The detective acknowledged under questioning that they did not have the Citgo video of Ke’Andre Fuller being shot at when they obtained the capital murder warrants against the twins, but said he did later make the district attorney’s office aware of that.

Anthony questioned why Barker, Hannah and friends were just 20 yards from where Fuller lived when they were shot. Defense attorneys also asked the detective if they had seen a video of someone taking a gun out of the blue sedan after the deadly shooting.

“I have not seen such a video,” Reed said, “but if you have such a video, I’d love to see it.”

Anthony also asked the detective if Ke’Andre Fuller had told him he fired in self-defense. “He stated several things, one that he was shooting in self-defense,’’ Reed said.

Griffin also asked the detective about the video of someone taking a gun out of the car before deputies arrived on the scene.

Attorneys asked the detective if they asked Barker whether someone had fired a gun from their vehicle, and Reed said he told them everything happened so quickly.

“Only the people involved really know what happened out there,’’ Reed said.