40-year-old woman dead in Birmingham home identified as victim in 4 linked killings

40-year-old woman dead in Birmingham home identified as victim in 4 linked killings

The name of one of two people found shot to death in an east Birmingham home has now been released.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Wednesday identified the female victim as Tiffany Michele Hernandez. She was 40.

Coroner’s officials said they did not know where Hernandez lived.

The male victim has not yet been identified, said Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates.

The victims are two of four people killed in two separate shootings that authorities say were carried out by Daniel P. Watson, 28, of Pell City.

The St. Clair County victims were identified Tuesday as Amber L. Manning, a 37-year-old wife and mother, and Timothy R. Davidson, a 62-year-old father.

Tim Davidson and Amber Manning were fatally shot at a St. Clair County residence. (Special to AL.com)

St. Clair County Sheriff Billy Murray said at about 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, deputies responded to a disturbance call at 1 Ivy Drive Ragland.

When they arrived, the deputies found Manning dead in the driveway.

Davidson was inside the residence and still alive. He was flown by lifesaver to UAB hospital and later pronounced dead.

A lookout bulletin was issued for Watson, who then encountered a Leeds police officer who recognized the suspect vehicle. Watson reportedly then told the officer he had killed two additional people in Birmingham, and the investigation there began.

Birmingham police spokesman Officer Truman Fitzgerald said officers at 6 a.m. Tuesday received information from Leeds police that Watson had confessed to shooting two people in Birmingham.

Watson was able to provide general information about a house in South East Lake where the killings took place. Officers made entry and found the victims dead from gunshot wounds.

Fitzgerald said he believes the Birmingham killings happened first, likely between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.

Authorities have not yet publicly released a motive.

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Daniel Watson, 28, is charged in two St. Clair County slayings. (St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office)

Watson is charged with capital murder and murder in St. Clair County where he remains held without. Birmingham police have not yet filed formal charges against him in the South East Lake killings.

Watson shares the same last name as the owners and/or residents of the South East Lake home, property records show, but any relationship between Watson and any of the victims has not yet been disclosed.

Hernandez and the unidentified man are Birmingham’s 16th and 17th homicides of 2023. Of those, one has been ruled justifiable and therefore is not deemed criminal.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 21 homicides, including the 17 in Birmingham.