A 20-year-old Birmingham man charged with capital murder in one shooting death, and attempted murder in the separate wounding of a 15-year-old boy, will stand trial as an adult.

Attorneys for Martez Willearl Jefferson sought youth offender status for their client, who is facing a total of six felony shooting charges in at least three different incidents in June 2022.

A hearing was held Monday.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Shanta Craig Owens on Tuesday issued an order denying youthful offender status for Jefferson.

According to the state’s Youthful Offender statute, if a person charged with a crime in an adult court in Alabama is under the age of 21 at the time of the alleged offense, that person has the right to make an application with the court requesting Youthful Offender status be granted.

Under the statute, a person deemed a youthful offender serves no more than three years if convicted, among other benefits.

Jefferson charged with capital murder in the June 5, 2021, killing of 18-year-old Rayshod Goldthwaite.

North Precinct officers were dispatched just after 1 a.m. that Sunday to 608 Second Ave. North. Once on the scene, they found a driver had wrecked into the building there.

Goldthwaite was unresponsive from a gunshot wound and pronounced dead on the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service.

Police said the victim was traveling in the 600 block of Third Avenue North when another vehicle pulled up alongside him and opened fire.

Family told investigators that Jefferson had been threatening Goldthwaite in connection with another criminal case.

Jefferson is also charged with first-degree assault for the wounding of a second person – a juvenile who was with Goldwaithe – and with shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Jefferson is also charged with attempted murder of 15-year-old Christian Savage.

Christian, a point guard with the Woodlawn High School basketball team, was shot in the head June 29, 2022, while playing video games in the second-floor bedroom of the family’s apartment at The Rev. Dr. Morrell Todd Homes in Birmingham’s Kingston area.

Thirteen shell casings were recovered from the crime scene.

Witnesses provided police with a suspect vehicle. Jefferson was later arrested.

Christian was released from the hospital in October, after more than 100 days at Children’s of Alabama. The bullet that struck Christian traveled from the right side of his face to the left side and lodged near his brain. He is now blind in one eye and has a brain injury.

Jefferson is also charged with shooting into a woman’s apartment on June 20, 2022. No one was injured in that incident.

Jefferson was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on July 1, 2022, and remains held without bond.

Following the judge’s refusal to grant youthful offender status, Jefferson entered a plea of not guilty to all charges.