15-year-old arrested in 2022 fatal shooting of man in southwest Birmingham neighborhood

15-year-old arrested in 2022 fatal shooting of man in southwest Birmingham neighborhood

A juvenile has taken into custody in the November shooting death of a man in a southwest Birmingham neighborhood.

The 15-year-old boy was arrested in the Nov. 26 slaying of 30-year-old Jerrod Excell Turner.

Birmingham police are not releasing the suspect’s name because of his age.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said detectives presented their evidence to Jefferson County Family Court officials, who issued a pickup order on the teen. He was taken into custody Friday morning by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and is being held at the G. Ross Bell Youth Detention Center.

A motive has not been disclosed.

Jerrod Excell Turner (Gun Violence Memorial)

Officers were called just after 6:35 p.m. that Saturday to the 2800 block of 29th Street S.W. on a report of a male shot.

Turner was found unresponsive in a driveway of a vacant house. A family made the initial discovery.

He pronounced dead on the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service.