Multiple Homicides In Birmingham During Weekend: Police

BIRMINGHAM, AL — The last weekend of 2019 proved to be a deadly one, as Birmingham police investigate multiple homicides from Dec. 26-29. As of Monday, no arrests have been made in any of the four homicide cases reported through the weekend.

On the evening of Dec. 26, officers from the East Precinct responded to a call from Birmingham Airport Authority Security of a person lying on the side of the roadway in the 8900 block of 8th Court North. Officers located a male victim lying on the side of the roadway unresponsive, later identified as Adam Blake Warren, 36, of Trafford, Alabama. Birmingham Fire and Rescue arrived with the Jefferson County Coroner and pronounced Warren deceased on the scene. Initially the investigation was unclassified, but further examination by the coroner and additional evidence gathered at the scene prompted detectives to classify the investigation as a homicide.

Around 1 a.m. Dec, 27, officers from the South Precinct responded to a call of a person shot at 832 24th Street South. Officers found 32-year-old Frederick Adams inside the kitchen area of the apartment unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound.

Police later learned that Adams responded to a knock at the back door of his apartment shortly before he was shot. Currently there are no motives or suspects in this investigation.

A little more than 24 hours later, officers from the West Precinct responded to a call of shots fired at 2626 Court R Ensley around 4 a.m. Dec. 28. Police located one person unresponsive suffering from a gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue transported the victim to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 19-year-old Temarcus Orman McMullen.

Detectives learned that another person was transported to a local area hospital by private vehicle with non-life threatening injuries and another person who was grazed and was treated on the scene for minor injuries sustained.

Later that afternoon in an unrelated incident, West Precinct officers found a gunshot victim at 1541 Tuscaloosa Ave SW. The victim, identified later as 48-year-old Rickey Lane Turner, was unresponsive, and pronounced dead on the scene.

Anyone who has information pertaining to these cases is asked to contact the B.P.D. Homicide Unit at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.