21 years old, charged with the Birmingham shooting, who killed 4 men

A great jury of Jefferson County defended a 21-year-old man who was a driver in a Birmingham Drive-by-by shot who have killed four friends for a long time.

Lamarion Tykese Charlie, Birmingham, is accused on February 16, 2024, shooting his death Talton “TJ” Tait, 36, Cortez Ray, 32, Terrell Edwards, 38, and Kevin McGhee, 38 years old.

The big jury accused Charlie for the capital killing of two or more people and a capital murder in the presence of a child under 14. Judicial records made public on Wednesday said the young child in at least one of the victims was there during the deadly shootings.

Charlie remains with no bonds in the prison in Jefferson County. He was initially arrested the moon after killing.

The two suspicious shooters remain in freedom.

Filming happened around 2:45 pm on Friday, outside the Tait family house, where he ran a car washing in the neighborhood.

Edwards and Ray, one of whom was there receiving a car wash, fell in front of the house next to the cars. Tait, a four -year -old father, ran a short distance before crashing on the side of a neighbor’s house.

All three were pronounced dead on the spot.

McGhee was taken to Uab Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly later.

Two of the victims, McGhee and Edwards, were cousins.

Edwards was an employee of the city that started in public works and moved to parks and recreation. It came out just 15 minutes before the fatal shooting and mckel lifted it.

The filming was caught on the video surveillance cameras and showed the vehicle of the suspects surrounding the block for about 10 minutes before opening the fire.

Two people weapon dressed in all black were seen out of 2022 Black Hyundai Elantra and then running back to the car. They left a trace of 37 shell housings in two weapons, according to the court testimony on Tuesday.

That Hyundai Elantra was found about five miles away and threw itself just 20 minutes after the fatal shooting, the testimony showed.

Birmingham homiciders. Jarvelius Tolliver in a preliminary hearing from May He confessed that Charlie, when he was questioned by detectives, gave up his rights Miranda and acknowledged that he was the Elantra driver during shooting.

The two actual shooters remain freedom. Tolliver confessed that only one of them was identified.

Charlie, the police said, acknowledged that he was driving the suspected vehicle that day.

Tolliver confessed that two rooms in the neighborhood captured the events of that day – one from the Smithfield public housing community and the other from a neighborhood store.

One of the cameras captured only the suspects who arrived and left, but the second captured their own shooting.

Tolliver said that the readers of rooms and registration plates of the flock recorded the suspect vehicle driving around the area for about 10 minutes before shooting, essentially surrounding the victims.

Elantra then stopped in front of Tait’s house.

Tolliver said that the driver – now identified as Charlie – remained in the vehicle, which was on Central Street face to Revere Abraham Woods Jr. Boulevard.

The passenger in the back seat on the driver’s side first came out of the vehicle. It has been close to the victims, Tolliver said.

Seconds later, the front seat passenger came out. He marked a long weapon and headed to the place where the victims were gathered.

Both suspects wore all black.

Tolliver said they both ran back to the car. The police recovered 27 shell housings drawn from a long weapon, and 10 shell housings fired from a 40-caliber gun.

Elantra removed and was captured on a flock camera within 40 seconds after filming.

Just 20 minutes later, said Tolliver, Birmingham police were shipped to a fire car in 2700 block of Old Wenonah Road. The car, said the detective, was 2022 Black Hyundai Elantra.

Charlie told the detectives that he did not know the name of the person on the front passenger seat and knew only the first name of the person behind him on the back seat.

Tolliver said that none of the weapons used in deadly shooting has been recovered.