5th suspect charged in shootout at Woodlawn High School reunion picnic
A fifth suspect has been charged in the shootout at a Woodlawn High School reunion picnic that injured a woman and damaged multiple cars.
Dakawuan Christian Collins, 29, of Center, was taken into custody at the East Precinct Monday by the Birmingham Police Department’s Crime Reduction Team, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
Collins is charged with first-degree assault. He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 6:36 p.m. Monday and remains held without bond.
Also charged are Camron Hinton, 22, Freddy Hurst III, 22, D’Andre Watkins, 27, and Stefon Todd, 28.
The shooting happened shortly after 7 p.m., July 12, in back parking lot of the school in the 5600 block of First Avenue.
Police responded to the school that Saturday after the city’s Shot Spotter gunfire detection picked up one incident of three shots fired, and then a second burst with 10 shots fired.
Officers arrived to find about seven vehicles damaged by the gunfire.
A young woman then showed up a short time later at UAB Hospital with gunshot injuries. She told staff she was shot at Woodlawn High School.
“These guys had something going on and they chose to meet up at Woodlawn to settle their beef,” Officer De’Rell Freeman previously said.
Police last week issued a plea for more witnesses to come forward.
“We know it’s a cultural thing with the no-snitch thing going on,” Freeman said. “They’d rather say something on the internet instead of coming directly to the source which is the police department.”
The school had reunion activities all week, culminating Saturday with a picnic and other festivities at the school.
“There are other schools that will be having their class picnics and reunions in the coming weeks,” Freeman said. “We want everybody to be comfortable and be safe.”
“When situations like this happen, it causes us to put special attention on the other class days,” he said. “We want everybody to enjoy these things, and we don’t want to have to stop them, but when you have situations like this, the conversations come up.”
Anyone with information is asked to felony assault detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
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