Alabama man charged in 14 murders, including firefighter and UPS worker

Fox 9 KMSP ^ | 2/26/2025 | Williams

[Phoenix8]

The Brief

Damien McDaniel, 22, is charged in connection with 14 murders, including a firefighter and UPS worker. McDaniel also linked to two mass shootings in 2024, with 11 victims dead. Authorities have not disclosed a motive, and McDaniel is held without bond. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An Alabama man has been charged in connection with 14 murders, including those of a firefighter and UPS worker.

According to the Birmingham Police Department, 22-year-old Damien McDaniel was recently charged in connection to the murder of Birmingham firefighter Jordan Melton. Melton was shot and killed in July 2023 at a fire station. A second firefighter, Sergeant Jamal Jones, was also shot.

McDaniel was also charged in connection with the murder of Mia Nickson, who was shot and killed in January 2024.

Birmingham Police told local outlets that murder charges related to the deaths of Nickson and Love were murder-for-hire cases.

[Phoenix8]

On X a post claimed this one man was responsible for 9 % of TOTAL serious crimes in Birmingham in the last year. I was skeptical of it but Google said 144 murders occurred there in 2023, so I guess it possible.

Classic example of how a small % of our population commits most of the violent crime.

[Skwor]

And.. he’s B....

No need to look.

[ansel12]

This is one of those wild stories, that is a lot of killing.

[Bullish]

No need not to look either.

[redfreedom]

Sounds like those Amish kids are at it again, little devils.

[No name given]

Just another son of Obeyme.

[No name given]

It’s them again, Yogi.

[mewzilla]

If those were murders for hire then the perp had help, didn’t he.

[Phoenix8]

14…those are the ones they know of.

[frank ballenger]

RE: a post claimed this one man was responsible for 9 % of TOTAL serious crimes in Birmingham

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On Law and Order SVU, at his going away dinner for the Richard Belzer character Detective Munch he said “When I first came from Baltimore to New York my partner Fin Tutuola told me every two minutes and ten seconds a man assaults a woman. I told him: ‘Fin, we’ve gotta find this guy.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Classic example of how a small % of our population commits most of the violent crime.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
It’s also a classic example why mollycoddling murderers when they should be executed within hours of their convictions results in the murder of more victims.

[Veto!]

There must be some mistake. After all, he’s a Black guy.

[econjack]

Murder for hire. That deserves a special kind of death sentence. Don’t know what that would be, but I hope it’s painful and lasts at least one day of pain for each victim.

[Adder]

Ferals gonna feral.

It’s a stereotype for a reason...

[dennisw]

This psycho killer will get the best lawyers, paid by anti-death penalty NGOs, that are Federally funded out of Washingtoon DC. The kind of high paid lawyers that can delay his execution 20 years.
This is my guess.

The man who shot at FDR and Mayor Anton Cermak (killed) was tried and executed within 33 days

[dennisw]

His defense will be that he had a rough childhood with his father beating him with a strap. And that he was on drugs when he killed.

[pierrem15]

SCOTUS has already made any execution have to wait due to the mandatory appeals process.

There is, of course, no Constitutional requirement or statute made by Congress that requires a mandatory appeal. They just made it up.

[Veto!]

Do I have to look?
Apparently not.

[Steven Scharf]

The question is how many bad guys did he kill saving the justice system from having to prosecute and incarcerate them?