Hush mass shooting suspect now accused of killing 11 people in 5 Birmingham crimes in 2 months
The man charged with killing four people outside a hookah lounge in Five Points South in September, and two others in the days before and after, is now charged with killing four people in another Birmingham mass shooting in July and another man killed during an August burglary.
Damien McDaniel III, 22, of Fairfield, is now accused of killing 11 people and wounding 29 others in five incidents between July and September.
He was indicted on Nov. 22 in a drive-by shooting at an adult birthday party in Birmingham left four people dead and nine others injured on July 13.
Birmingham police identified the slain victims as Angela Weatherspoon, 56, of Center Point, Markeisha Gettings, 42, of Birmingham, Stevie McGhee, 39, of Birmingham, and Lerandus Anderson, 24, of Center Point.
McDaniel is charged with 10 counts of first-degree assault in the July 13 shooting, which happened during a birthday party at a nightclub.
“They didn’t deserve that,’’ said Angel Weatherspoon, who lost her mother, nephew, and sister in the mass shooting at Trendsetters. “This gives us a little peace.”
Her sister, Glamorus Mullins, said news of the arrest is somewhat a relief but the family’s fear and hurt is by no means gone.
“I can finally get some rest. I’ve been living in constant fear,’’ Mullins said. “Am I going to be next? Is one of my kids going to be next?”
“We’ve been afraid. Are they going to get the rest of us?” Mullins said. “And for what reason? We don’t know.”
The Weathespoon and Mullins families said they don’t know McDaniel.
“He’s a straight menace,’’ Weatherspoon said. “I want to know, ‘Why?’ Who sent you?”
McDaniel is also now indicted on a charge of capital murder during a burglary in the Aug. 13 shooting death of Charlie Moore, 61.
McDaniel was already jailed in the Sept. 21 deaths of Carlos McCain, 27, Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, Anitra Holloman, 21, and Tahj Booker, 27. Those four were killed, and 17 others injured, in the Five Points South shooting.
McDaniel is also charged with murder in the Sept. 19 killing of Diontrante Tinae Brown, a 35-year-old mother who police say was an innocent bystander shot to death inside 604 Bar and Lounge on Ninth Street North.
McDaniel faces another capital murder charge in the robbery shooting death of 32-year-old Jamarcus McIntyre, who died in a hail of gunfire in the 700 block of 81st Place South less than 24 hours after the Five Points South shooting.
This is a developing story and will be updated.