4-year-old girl dies nearly 2 years after being injured during her father’s unsolved Birmingham slaying
A child who was injured during a 2022 shooting that killed her father while they were driving on a busy Birmingham roadway has died.
Madison Grace “Maddie” Davis, 4, died Tuesday at Children’s of Alabama, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office confirmed.
Madison was critically injured on Sept. 2, 2022, while in a white Infiniti G35 with her father, 22-year-old Demarkus Etwan Moss, and her younger brother.
The shooting happened just before 6 p.m. that Friday in the 800 block of Arkadelphia Road, just in front of Birmingham-Southern College.
Moss was shot multiple times, but continued to drive, almost making it to Interstate 59/20 before he collided with a grey Chevrolet Silverado in the 1000 block of Arkadelphia Road.
Officers from Birmingham’s North and West precincts arrived to find Moss slumped over and unresponsive and rushed him to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Demarkus Etwan Moss Sr., 22, was shot to death Sept. 2, 2022, while driving a vehicle with two of his young children inside. Both kids were hurt in a subsequent crash. (Howard Koplowitz)
Madison was also unresponsive and taken to Children’s of Alabama. Authorities never confirmed whether her injuries were sustained in the crash or if she had been shot.
She was eventually released from the hospital. It was not immediately clear when she re-admitted to Children’s before her death there on Tuesday.
Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said he is not yet making on a statement on the cause of death pending an examination and a review of her medical history.
Moss’s infant son was not seriously injured. Moss also left behind two other children.
Demarkus Etwan Moss Sr., 22, was fatally shot Sept. 2, 2022, while driving in a vehicle with his two young children, both of whom were hurt in a subsequent crash. (Special to AL.com)
Police said Moss was targeted in the deadly shooting.
In the days after the shooting, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin issued a call for information via social media.
“Birmingham police have very few leads in this case so we’re turning to the public for help,’’ Woodfin wrote. “I’m tired of these cowards hurting our children. Enough.”
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.