A suspect was arrested on Tuesday charged with killing four people in shootings in two Alabama counties, authorities said. Daniel Parker Watson, 28, of Peel City, is being held at the St. Clair County Detention Center on murder charges, County Sheriff’s Office He said Tuesday.
The charges, including one count of first degree murder and one count of murder with a handgun, stem from the suspect’s alleged involvement in two killings that took place in St Clair County, located just outside Birmingham. The sheriff’s office has identified the two victims as Amber L. Manning, 37, and Timothy R. Davidson, 62, of Ragland, a town in the state of St. Clair.
Watson is also suspected of killing two people in Birmingham, Officer Truman Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the Birmingham Police Department, announced in a video posted on Twitter. Twitter. The names of these two victims were not released.
Just before 6 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Watson was taken into custody by a police officer in Leeds, Alabama, Fitzgerald said, as a suspect in the shooting that killed Manning and Davidson. Leeds is an eastern suburb of Birmingham and lies partly within the borders of St Clair.
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At the time of his arrest, Fitzgerald said, the suspect had told a Leeds police officer that he had shot two additional victims in the city of Birmingham. This officer then reported the information to Birmingham Police and shared details which led law enforcement to the property where the two additional victims were located.
When officers entered the home, Fitzgerald said, they discovered a woman and a man with what appeared to be gunshot wounds. Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel were called to the scene and pronounced the two victims dead on arrival. The names of these victims were not disclosed.
A preliminary investigation by the Birmingham Police Department indicates that the suspect shot two victims in Birmingham before traveling to St. Clair County and shooting Manning and Davidson, according to Fitzgerald.
“So far, the motive has not been determined,” he said. However, we believe the suspect knows at least some of the victims.”
Fitzgerald said the suspect would likely face murder charges due to his alleged involvement in the Birmingham murders.
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