Man awaiting trial in 2020 shootings now jailed in Tuscaloosa shooting that killed 1, injured 3

A suspect has been charged in an early-morning shooting in Tuscaloosa County that left one man dead and three other people injured.

Gredrick Deontae Agnew, 22, of Greensboro, is charged with capital murder in the slaying of 30-year-old Donavin Ryans.

Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit Capt. Jack Kennedy said the shooting happened about 1 a.m. at a home in the 1300 block of 58th Street East, south of Tuscaloosa.

There was a small party taking place at the residence. Agnew was asked to leave. Agnew, Kennedy said, began firing shots through an open door from the outside to the inside, wounding four people.

Ryans was pronounced dead. The other three victims are expected to be OK.

Agnew fled the scene but was taken into custody Sunday afternoon in Marengo County.

He is being held without bond in the Tuscaloosa County Jail

Kennedy said investigators are consulting with the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s Office about numerous additional charges against Agnew.

Court records show Agnew is already awaiting trial on a 2021 indictment for seven counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied building or vehicle. In those cases, which happened in 2020, records state Agnew into at least one residence and at least one car.

There are seven victims listed in that indictment. Agnew is set to go to trial in Hale County in that case August.

The new charge is a capital offense because Agnew is accused of firing into an occupied home.

The incident was one of two Alabama shootings in Sunday’s predawn hours that end in death and multiple injuries.

Shortly after 2 a.m., one person was killed, and six others wounded outside the Shell gas station on Birmingham’s busy Third Avenue West.