The attorney for one of four men charged with capital murder in the fatal robbery of a 32-year-old man less than 24 hours after a Birmingham mass shooting said his client maintains his innocence and is seeking to be released from jail on bond.

Larry Denzel Rollins Jr., 31, is charged in the Sept. 22 shooting death of Jamarcus McIntyre who died in a hail of gunfire in the 700 block of 81st Place South that Sunday night.

Also charged in McIntyre’s slaying are Ny’Quan Cordae Lollar, 22, Demarco Nakia Beck Jr., 29, and Damien McDaniel, a 22-year-old Fairfield man who is also charged with capital murder in the Hush lounge shooting that killed four people and injured 17 others.

McDaniel is also charged with murder in the Sept. 19 shooting death of a Birmingham mother, an innocent bystander who was killed when shots were fired into a north Birmingham lounge.

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

Birmingham defense attorney John Lentine represents Rollins, who was acquitted earlier this year of a separate murder on Birmingham’s Southside.

Lentine and Jefferson County Deputy District Attorney Shawn Allen went before Jefferson County District Judge Maria Fortune on Thursday. News media was not allowed into the courtroom.

Lentine has filed a motion that Rollins be granted a bond. In that motion, Lentine said Rollins has lived in Jefferson County with his family his entire life and has strong ties to the community.

The attorney said Rollins was employed until his arrest earlier this week. He said Rollins is not a flight risk or a danger to the community and is asking that bond be set no higher than $100,000 on each of his charges for capital murder and trafficking heroin.

Rollins was briefly in the courtroom Thursday but did not have to appear before the judge since he had already hired an attorney.

“You have under state law the right to a bond in a capital case,’’ Lentine said. “Only if the evidence that’s shown convinces a judge that you’re guilty can a judge deny bond.”

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

That fatal shooting happened about 12:30 a.m. that Sunday in the 1100 block of 20th Street South.

Sledge was found unresponsive in the middle of the roadway. He was taken to UAB Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police at the time said the deadly shooting stemmed from an altercation inside an establishment that then spilled over to outside.

Slain Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton was a witness to Sledge’s killing and was set to be called to testify in Rollins’ trial, however Melton was gunned down last year in a targeted shooting at Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service’s Station 9. Also critically injured in the shooting was Lt. Jamal Jones.

No one has been charged in Melton’s death.

“Mr. Rollins has always maintained his innocence of what he was acquitted of before, and for the charges now,’’ Lentine said.

“It’s unfortunately that the media has basically adopted everything that the Birmingham Police Department and the District Attorney’s Office has said,’’ the attorney said.

“They’re all there for a press conference where they lay out their facts before a jury or anybody else hears all of them and it’s just unfortunate that y’all chose to do it that way.”

“He’s been demonized for things he hasn’t even shown to be guilty of at this point,’’ Lentine said. “He’s been charged one time before at trial before jury who acquitted him, regardless of who testified in it.”

“There’s been these allegations that he’s linked to another death and there’s no evidence linking him to another death’’ Lentine said.

“He’s never been charged, and it’s been a year and a half, yet you all will put that out there like there’s some evidence to establish that. If there was, don’t you think he would be charged with it?”

“Rather than just adopt the narrative of the police at this point, let’s wait and see what the facts actually show. I don’t think they’re going to show what they say,’’ Lentine said.

“All we’re asking is that he be treated like everybody else in this country and that’s fairly.”

Rollins is set to have a bond hearing and a preliminary hearing on Dec. 5.