A second suspect has been charged in the killing of a 22-year-old Birmingham man during a robbery.

Kathrine Rashun Brown, 25, is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Xavier ”Zay” Colvert, a mechanical engineering student found slain in his pickup truck in Ensley.

Brown was booked into the Jefferson Jail at about 11:15 a.m. Thursday and is being held without bond.

Previously charged with capital murder was 18-year-old Jeremy Dewayne Thomas.

Authorities say Brown set up Colvert to be robbed by Thomas.

Colvert and Brown knew each other from high school and she had recently told him she was going through a tough time and needed his help.

On the night of Colvert’s slaying, he picked her up thinking he was going to be helping a friend, family said.

Birmingham police were dispatched at 11:45 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31 to a shots fired call and arrived to find Colvert unresponsive inside his white pickup truck.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene at 12:38 a.m. Saturday.

Police marked at least a half dozen shell casings near the truck’s passenger door.

Thomas was taken into custody earlier this month.

Colvert was the son of former Jefferson County Constable Robert Colvert III, who himself was a victim of violence when a shootout happened in 2018 at his body shop in Woodlawn.

The senior Colvert, a father of seven, was hit twice, in the hip and buttocks areas during an exchange of gunfire with a man he allowed to use his tools and space at his shop for a couple weeks to finish up some work he was doing on two vehicles.

The other man was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison with five to serve.

Colvert III served as a constable for four years until last month, and now works as a Bessemer Cutoff bailiff and also does evictions for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

Colvert III said his son graduated in 2020 from Fairfield High Preparatory School and was accepted into Alabama A&M’s mechanical engineering program.

He returned to Jefferson County at the end of the last semester to take a break and be with family.

“He said he missed home,’’ Colvert III said. “Zay was gonna start back after the summer.”

“Zay was a genius, mechanically inclined, one of the smartest people I know,’’ Colvert III said. “Zay taught me something every day about life.”

Colvert III said his son was not on the streets whatsoever.

“He was kind of a nerd if you will,’’ Colvert III said. “He loved to laugh and make people laugh.”

“His presence was known when he walked in the room by his smile and laugher,’’ he said. “Xavier was a big teddy bear.”