A 22-year-old Fairfield man is behind bars, accused of killing six people in Birmingham in 72 hours, including four people in the mass shooting outside Hush lounge in Five Points South.

Damien Laron McDaniel III is charged with capital murder of two or more people in the massacre that killed four people on Sept. 21 and with 17 counts of first-degree assault for those who were injured.

McDaniel is also charged with murder in the Sept. 19 killing of Diontrante Tinae Brown, a 35-year-old mother who police say was an innocent bystander shot to death inside 604 Bar and Lounge on Ninth Street North.

McDaniel faces another capital murder charge in the robbery shooting death of 32-year-old Jamarcus McIntyre, who died in a hail of gunfire in the 700 block of 81st Place South less than 24 hours after the Five Points South shooting.

Additionally, McDaniel is charged with three counts of attempted murder in the Sept. 22 shooting that not only killed McIntyre but left two others wounded.

Police say all three homicide cases are linked but they have not publicly disclosed what connected the deaths.

“You have a common suspect, for one thing that’s charged, in all three…. This is just one step in moving forward. There’s a lot more to come in these investigations as we prepare for court,” Police Chief Scott Thurmond said when asked Wednesday about the connection in the cases.

The investigation is not over and has far-reaching implications in other crimes, including the lucrative illegal drug trade, throughout the city and beyond.

Three other people have also been charged with capital murder in McIntyre’s slaying – Ny’Quan Cordae Lollar, 22, Larry Denzel Rollins, Jr., 31, and Demarco Nakia Beck Jr., 29.

Charging documents state McIntyre was killed while he was being robbed of a backpack and its contents.

Lollar was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 5:57 p.m. Tuesday on the capital murder warrant and a failure to appear warrant on a previous felony.

Rollins, acquitted earlier this year in a 2021 killing that also happened in Southside, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder in McIntyre’s death as well as trafficking heroin.

He has been held for several days in the Birmingham City Jail awaiting formal warrants.

Rollins in April was found not guilty in the May 2, 2021, killing of 27-year-old Hoover father Eric Tyler Sledge Jr.

Slain Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton was a witness to Sledge’s killing and was set to be called as a witness in Rollins’ trial, however Melton was gunned down last year in a targeted shooting at Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service’s Station 9.

No one has been charged in Melton’s death.

Rollins is also charged with trafficking heroin.

Beck was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 1:13 p.m. Wednesday. He has previously been arrested on gun and drug charges.

McDaniel was taken into custody last week at a Fairfield home. He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 4:11 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, on probation violation charges stemming from previous felony conviction.

According to court documents, McDaniel pleaded guilty on April 26, 2023, to two counts of attempted murder in a 2021 shooting in Fairfield. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison with two years to serve followed by three years of probation.

Last week, Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff Chief Assistant District Attorney Lane Tolbert filed a motion to revoke McDaniel’s probation.

Tolbert said that between April 1, 2024, through Oct. 1, 2024, McDaniel was recorded on social media brandishing firearms at least nine times.

Prosecutors said McDaniel is in violation of his probation by engaging in “injurious and vicious habits.”

McDaniel also violated probation terms of avoiding persons and places of disreputable conditions and character, and by being a felon in possession of a firearm, prosecutors said.

Bessemer Cutoff Circuit Judge David Carpenter issued a warrant on the revocation charge.

A vehicle believed to be connected to the deadly shooting outside Hush was also recovered in Fairfield.

Sources say the potential ties between the mass shooting and Fairfield and the rumors and fear of retaliatory shootings were, in part, the reason for the postponement of Fairfield City Schools’ homecoming activities and Fairfield Alumni Week activities.

Additionally, Miles College moved up kickoff time for its Oct. 5 homecoming game and postponed its parade.

‘I seen my brother take his last breath’

Saturday will mark one month since police say multiple gunmen unleashed more than 100 rounds – including automatic gunfire – on a long line of people waiting to get into Hush on Magnolia Avenue.

The gunfire erupted just after 11 p.m. that Saturday, killing Carlos McCain, 27, Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, Anitra Holloman, 21, and Tahj Booker, 27. Seventeen others – believed to be innocent bystanders – suffered wounds ranging from superficial to critical.

Police quickly said that they believed the barrage of gunfire was a “hit” – a murder-for-hire targeting at least one of the men killed in the shooting.

Two of the victims, Carlos De’Juan McCain, 27, and Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, both were charged in past Birmingham homicides.

McCain was acquitted of murder and attempted murder in 2017 in the shooting death of 15-year-old Kelvon Julius, who police said was killed in retaliation for another shooting in 2015. A young woman was also wounded in the gunfire that killed Kelvon.

Kelvon’s slaying happened June 4, 2016, on 12th Street South. A second suspect pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Patterson was previously charged with murder in the 2021 shooting of 20-year-old Dentarius Maurice Jackson, who was gunned down at the gas pumps at the Chevron on First Ave. North.

In 2022, the murder charge against Patterson was dismissed at the request of prosecutors citing “death, unavailability, and non-cooperation of witnesses.”

“There could be multiple motives for the one individual we believe was targeted. Others could have been targeted,’’ Thurmond previously said. “We’re still looking into that.”

“Some of the individuals killed have extensive criminal histories and because of that, there’s often motivation from others, and there’s people willing to pay to have them killed,’’ the chief said.

Court records show no criminal histories for the other two people killed – Anitra Hollomon, 21, and Tahj Booker, 27.

Some, if not all, of the victims were out that Saturday night celebrating Jackson-Olin High School’s alumni events, which included a picnic earlier that day.

McCain, who graduated from Jackson-Olin High School in 2015, was known to his friends as “Los” and “Lil Carlos.”

“Carlos was a vibrant little boy that was full of energy. Carlos loved to dress from head to toe and step out on the scene to shine like the rare diamond he was,’’ according to his obituary.”

“He was a fearless, strong Warrior,’’ the obituary read. “Carlos was kind-hearted, and he had the best sense of humor. Los was known to many as a gentle giant with a beautiful soul.”

McCain’s funeral was held Sept. 28, one week to the day after the mass shooting.

Patterson’s funeral was held in Fairfield Oct. 1. He grew up playing youth athletics – baseball and football – in the western area.

Both Booker and Holloman had separate funerals on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Booker, family members say, protected Hollomon when the shots rang out.

“To know my brother is to love him,’’ his brother, Jerome Booker, posted on Facebook the day after the shooting. “Everybody who know Tahj always knew he will protect anybody around him.”

“After them shots stopped, all I heard was my brother calling my name asking is I’m OK,’’ he wrote. “Whole time he got the girl ReRe (Holloman) in his arms on top of her like he shield her because I know how he is in that situation.”

“Then he said, ‘I’m shot,’ so I grabbed him off her and I seen my brother take his last breath,’’ he wrote.

Holloman was single mother whose longtime boyfriend was shot to death two years ago when she was pregnant with their daughter. She was in college studying to become a teacher and worked as a tax preparer for her family’s business.

She and her daughter lived with Holloman’s mother, Candance Kemp.

“My baby was shot four times,” Kemp previously told AL.com. “She didn’t stand a chance.”

“They just really broke my heart,’’ Kemp said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.