More than 100 rounds fired during birthday party at Birmingham Airbnb; teen ID’d as slain victim

More than 100 rounds fired during birthday party at Birmingham Airbnb; teen ID’d as slain victim

A teen has been identified as the victim killed at a birthday party early Sunday in which more than 100 rounds were fired.

Birmingham police Sunday afternoon identified the teen as Montraevious DeWayne Milton. He was 18 and lived in Pinson.

The shooting happened at an Airbnb in Birmingham’s Inglenook community that was apparently rented for the party.

Just after 2 a.m., the city’s East Precinct officers began getting reports of shots fired in the 4100 block of 49th Terrace North in the Inglenook community. While they were en route, dispatchers notified them someone had been wounded, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.

When police arrived, they found Milton unresponsive in the roadway. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene.

Fitzgerald said preliminary information indicates a birthday party was taken place at the house. An argument erupted and shots were fired.

Investigators recovered more than 100 spent shell casings.

“We do believe it was isolated and contained to the partygoers,’’ Fitzgerald said. He said the age group of people attending the party appeared to be 18 to 20.

A crowd of at least 50 onlookers gathered at the crime scene, visibly distraught.

No arrests have been made.

Fitzgerald said many of those attending the party are believed to have fled after shots were fired. Police need to talk to those people, he said.

Milton is Birmingham’s 59th homicide this year. Of those, one was an officer involved shooting by an outside law enforcement agency four others have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 83 homicides including the 59 in Birmingham.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call homicide investigators at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.