A south Alabama teen has been charged in a 2024 double homicide in Atmore.

Dexter Adams, 18, is charged with two counts of murder, Atmore police announced Monday.

He is charged in the slayings of Joe Jones Jr., 27, and Juwan McNeal, 25.

The deadly shooting happened Dec. 8, 2024, at a vacant home in the 100 block of East Ashley Street.

Officers arrived on the scene about 8:15 p.m. that Sunday to find both victims dead inside a vehicle. They had been shot multiple times.

Investigators processed the scene, interviewed citizens in the area, and collected evidence including over 20 spent shell casings. Charging documents state a .9mm gun was used in the killings.

Police officials on Monday said investigators from the department’s criminal investigations and narcotics/vice divisions have worked the case non-stop. They said new evidence led them to identify Adams as the suspect, but did not disclose the nature of that evidence.

More arrests are probable, authorities said.

Adams is already in jail for a separate shooting incident that happened May 7. In that case, according to criminal complaints, the teen fired shots at a juvenile inside a vehicle and the bullets also hit Winge & Burger Box, also in Atmore.

In that case, he is charged with attempted murder, discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and discharging a firearm into an occupied building.

Atmore police said the Alabama Department of Forensic Science, the Jackson Police Department’s Digital Forensics Division and other agencies assisted in the investigation.