Two men have been ordered released from jail after a judge found there was not enough evidence to charge them with capital murder in a Birmingham shooting that left two people dead, including a beloved rapper.

LaDre Demond Todd-Green and Jamil Carillo-Jemison, both 23, were arrested in April. The charges against them came eight months after the 2024 killings of Kayla Warren, 28, and Na’ Bryan Adams, 20.

Both suspects appeared before Jefferson County Judge William Bell for a lengthy preliminary hearing Wednesday.

“Based on the testimony I’ve heard, probable cause is not found in either case,” Bell said. “The charges are dismissed.”

Some family members burst into tears, and at least one of the suspects also cried softly.

Bell told the suspects the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office could still seek indictment from a grand jury.

The dismissal is the third time since May 21 that Bell has dismissed murder charges in Birmingham cases for lack of evidence or because there was evidence of self-defense.

The deadly shooting happened just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, at a house in the 700 block of 30th Street S.W.

When West Precinct officers arrived at the home, they found Warren, a rapper who went by the professional name 205KayWay, shot on the front porch of a friend’s home.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service rushed her to UAB Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 10:54 p.m.

Police learned Adams had been driven by private vehicle to Princeton Baptist Medical Center. He was then transferred to UAB because of the severity of injuries.

He died the following day.

A group of people were gathered at the home when the suspect opened fire.

The gunfire also damaged the house next door where a 66-year-old narrowly escaped being shot.

The case is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Charissa Henrichs.

Carillo-Jemison is represented by attorneys Hiram Griffin and Jerry Carter. Jefferson County Public Defender Adam Danneman.

Birmingham Det. Nick Clark, the lead investigator on the case, was the lone witness in Wednesday’s hearing.

Clark testified that investigators believed the shooting happened when the two suspects and others, including Adams, went to the 30th Street S.W. house to carry out a robbery.

The plan, Clark said, was to rob people at the house as a response to Carillo-Jemison being robbed by people who were at that home.

Several cars pulled up to the home. Both suspects, as well as Adams, were in those vehicles.

Testimony showed that before the retaliatory robbery could be carried out, a shootout erupted, wounding Warren, who was standing on the porch, and Adams, who was inside one of three vehicles that pulled up.

All of the vehicles left after the gunfire and drove first to an apartment building, and then to Princeton to get help for Adams. The group also went to UAB Hospital when Adams was transferred there.

At the hospital, Clark said, suspect Todd-Green told officers, “They started shooting at us.”

In a later interview with investigators, he said someone in another vehicle shot at his vehicle and he “put his head down and fired warning shots.”

Clark said he interviewed multiple witnesses, including the resident of the house where the shooting happened.

Investigators also obtained home surveillance footage from the murder scene that showed the caravan of cars leaving, but did not show the killings.

Clark testified that Facebook messages between Todd-Green’s account and another man’s account the day before the double murder talked about Carillo-Jemison being robbed and mentioned “wanting to shoot two individuals.”

Carillo-Jemison was arrested April 10 on an unrelated charge of possession of marijuana.

Homicide investigators then went to speak with him, and Clark said he gave multiple stories about what happened at the house where the murders happened.

Two days after Carillo-Jemison’s arrest, police took Todd-Green into custody.

Prosecutor Henrich said there was plenty of evidence to show the killings happened during a planned robbery.

Additionally, she said, shell casings were recovered from Todd-Green’s Infiniti, as well as a drum magazine with the capacity to fire 50 rounds.

“The concerted action by all of the defendants to go to the location, I think, shows their participation together,” Henrich said.

Griffin, Carillo-Jemison’s attorney, said the state had not met its burden to prove the charges.

His client, he said, was inside the 30th Street S.W. home when the gunfire erupted.

“The homeowner said she saw him come in. Her daughter was behind him. She heard the shooting start and asked (Carillo-Jemison) to hand her her daughter,” Griffin said. “If he had a weapon, she wouldn’t have been asking him to hand her her daughter.”

“There’s no witnesses that put a gun in his hand,” Griffin said. “All you have is chopped up versions of made-up stories that (his client) told the detectives.”

Even if he was to be believed that there was some kind of robbery plot hatched, it never happened, he said.

Danneman agreed.

“The capital statute is a specific intent crime, and the state has to show specific intent to cause the deaths of two or more people,” he said.

“They didn’t show the specific intent to cause the deaths of anyone, let alone two people.”

Danneman pointed out the security footage did not show Todd-Green firing any shots, and said his own statements showed he was trying to get Adams to the hospital.

“He told what he saw and what he didn’t see,” he said. “He told he fired warning shots, and he did not say he fired them on the scene.”

“I think it is extremely telling that there were eyewitnesses who saw the shooting …but what you didn’t hear was just as telling,” he said.

“If there was somebody that said (Todd-Green) was shooting, I guarantee you, this is a very good prosecutor, she would have presented that. She didn’t do it because it doesn’t exist.”

Henrich said the killings began with the robbery plan.

“The plan begins with the decision to go to the location and participate in what they were planning to do,” she said.

“The plan was to commit a robbery, and two individuals died as a result of that.”

This is the latest of several murder charges Bell has dismissed.

On May 21, Bell dismissed a murder charge against Qwaron Wilson in the April 2 killing of 42-year-old Brandon Luvine Cunningham.

On May 23, Bell said there was not enough evidence at this time to support criminal charges against Tamiya Krishaun Thomas in the January slaying of 40-year-old James Leon Craig.