A Birmingham teen has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man in the city’s Kingston community earlier this month.

Remeon Lewis, 18, is charged with murder in the Feb. 5 killing Demarious Antwon Cherry.

On Friday, at approximately 1 p.m., the Crime Reduction Team took Lewis into custody without incident in the 900 Block of 46th Street North.

Police and family said Cherry was an innocent bystander caught in a gunfight where there were roughly 40 shots fired.

The shooting happened about 9:40 p.m. that Wednesday on Roscoe Avenue in the Rev. Dr. Morrell Todd Homes in the Kingston area.

South Precinct officers were in the area and heard the barrage of gunfire. At the same time, police said, Shot Spotter alerted authorities to shots fired on Roscoe Avenue.

“It sounded like a massive shootout to our officers because of how close they were to the shooting,’’ Officer Truman Fitzgerald said at the time.

Neighborhood President Eldrige Knighton agreed.

“I heard the shots. I heard multiple gunshots,’’ Knighton said. “It was different caliber guns going off. Once I heard the sirens, I made my way up here.”

Police arrived to find Cherry near a set of steps at the end of an apartment building. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene at 10 p.m.

“Officers reported to me there was a crowd when they arrived and the crowd scattered,’’ Fitzgerald said.

Cherry’s family said he had gone to the store for his aunt and was on the way home when a shootout erupted in the 4600 block of Roscoe Avenue.

His mother had previously said he was caught in the fatal crossfire.

Cherry and much of his family lived in Kingston. Knighton said Cherry was respected in the neighborhood.

“He didn’t mess with nobody. He tended to his own business,’’ his mother said. “He was either at my house, his sister’s house, or his brother’s house. He stayed to himself.”

Tiffany Moore said her son didn’t own a gun.

He attended Woodlawn High School and graduated from Dupuy Alternative School.

“He was a quiet, caring person,’’ Moore said. “He’d go out of his way to help everybody he could.”

“I’m not supposed to be burying my son,’’ Moore said. “My kids are supposed to burying me.”