A man serving life without parole in an Alabama prison for four 2006 Birmingham murders has landed four new charges after a “security incident” at the lockup Sunday during which the inmate was seen in Facebook Live videos in an officer’s vest and holding a gun.

Derrol Shaw, 35, is now charged with first-degree escape, certain persons prohibited from possessing a firearm, promoting prison contraband and making a terrorist threat. The warrants were issued Monday by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office in the Bessemer Cutoff.

Shaw was seen in videos that began about 7 a.m. Sunday and lasted nearly 30 minutes. He was wearing what appeared to be a correctional officer’s vest, smoking what he said was marijuana and, in one video, holding a gun.

The Alabama Department of Corrections has not released any details surrounding the incident and did not respond to a request for comment Monday on Shaw being in possession of a gun or any updates in the incident. Alabama prison corrections officers do not carry guns.

On the escape charge, according to the warrants, Shaw did employ physical force with a deadly weapon to escape or attempt to escape.

Shaw was seen in the video with a bloody bandage around his wrist. In one of the videos, Shaw said he cut his wrist on razor wire on a prison fence at Donaldson Correctional Facility and that he called 911 from a cellphone out of fear he would bleed to death.

“I was just trying to go, but that wasn’t in the cards,” Shaw said.

He said he walked to back to the prison dorms and was mistaken for a correctional officer because of the vest.

In 2008, Shaw, then 20, agreed to plead guilty to the June 13, 2006, shooting deaths of John and Evelyn Martin, 84 and 82, and their 19-year-old grandson, Ryan Evans.

He also pleaded guilty in the June 9, 2006, shooting death of Walter Hill, a 91-year-old church deacon to avoid a potential death sentence. And he also has a robbery conviction.

Because of his convictions on violent crimes, Shaw is prohibited from possession a firearm.

And, as an inmate, he is prohibited from possessing a gun or any deadly weapon, which in this case was a gun, according to the warrant.

In Alabama, a person commits the crime of making a terrorist threat when he or she credibly, based on an objective evaluation, threatens to commit a crime of violence against a person or to damage any property by use of a bomb, explosive, weapon of mass destruction, firearm, deadly weapon, or other mechanism.

The warrant for Shaw on that charge lists prison staff as the victim.

“All ya’ll police that was laying in the floor of that office, y’all asses better tell the story right …. I made it clear multiple times that I wasn’t trying to hurt none of y’all as long as ya’ll didn’t buck,” Shaw said in the videos.

Shaw seems to say he got a gun as “insurance we didn’t even have to get physical…Y’all’s eyes got big as golf balls.”

Shaw said he thought of burning down the prison with “moonshine…I still might.”

In the video, Shaw complained about prisons.

“These conditions, bro,’’ he said. “They create the conditions to justify the means.”

“They’re beating the people, they’re beating the taxpayers, man,” Shaw said.

“They say it costs so much money to keep us in these prisons but then they take that same money and spend it for themselves.”

“In Alabama, where we’re at, (inmates) are dying here at Donaldson,’’ Shaw said.

Shaw added that “three of my n….s died this past week.”

“They create the conditions so that we die all the time….All of us are getting fed up, bro,’’ he said. “It’s absolute chaos every single day.”

So far this year, 19 inmates have died at Donaldson. In 2022, 40 inmates died at the prison.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Alabama in 2020 over what they called overcrowded and dangerous conditions.

The Justice Department cited failure to protect prisoners from inmate-on-inmate violence and sexual abuse, failure to protect them from excessive force by staff, and failure to provide safe conditions of confinement.

In response, the Legislature and Gov. Kay Ivey agreed in October 2021 to build two new men’s prisons, one in Elmore County and a second in Escambia County.

Each new prison is designed to house 4,000 inmates.

Despite the plan, Alabama remains on track to face trial against the U.S. Department of Justice next year. In the federal government’s 2019 letter to the state, the Department of Justice said that building new prisons wouldn’t solve Alabama’s prison crisis.