A 41-year-old Birmingham man has been charged in the shooting death of his cousin.

Donald Dewayne Holt is charged with murder in the death of 36-year-old Curtis Holt Jr., and attempted murder in the wounding of another family member.

Birmingham police tactical officers took Donald Holt into custody in west Birmingham within two hours of the fatal shooting.

The suspect was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 5:37 p.m. Sunday and remains held without bond.

The shooting happened shortly after 8 p.m. Friday in the 3500 block of Hemlock Avenue.

According to Birmingham Fire and Rescue radio communications, one person sustained several gunshot wounds to the chest, and the second victim was shot in the leg.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said officers arrived on the scene and found both gunshot victims inside a home.

BFRS transported both men to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Holt was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. The condition of the second victim was not immediately known.

Fitzgerald said Donald Holt shot both victims and then fled the scene.

Curtis Holt was one of two men killed in Birmingham over the weekend and one of three killed in six days after the city went one month without a homicide.

Dorian Jackson, 20, was also shot in an unrelated incident Friday night and he died Saturday morning at UAB Hospital.

The gunfire that killed Jackson also wounded an adult female and a 12-year-old boy.

So far this year, there have been 19 homicides in Birmingham.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 30, including the 19 in Birmingham.

At this time last year, March 23, 2024, there had been 32 homicides in the city and 34 countywide.