An Alabama teen already awaiting trial on capital murder and attempted murder is now charged in two more murders.
Birmingham police on Friday said Koreon Daisean Johnson is charged with capital murder of two or more people in the 2021 shooting deaths of 22-year-old Anthony Murray and 24-year-old Ronald Smith Jr.
Murray and Smith were killed November 12, 2021, in a shooting that also injured two others.
It was about 6:30 p.m. that Friday when Birmingham police responded to a quadruple shooting. Authorities said officers responded to a ShotSpotter call of more than 30 rounds fired in the 1100 block of 33rd Street Southwest.
The officers found two people with gunshot wounds outside a vehicle. They were transported to UAB hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police also found Murray and Smith in the backseat of the vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds who were pronounced dead on the scene.
Several weapons were recovered from the vehicle. Police at the time said the shooter fired from outside the vehicle.
Authorities have not yet said how they identified Johnson as a suspect in those killings.
The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office issued the warrants on Thursday, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald. Johnson was then taken into custody by U.S. Marshals.
He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 10:03 a.m. and remains held without bond.
Johnson is already awaiting trial on a capital murder charge in the Sept. 25, 2021, shooting death of 26-year-old Jahshua Almond Rogers.
That shooting took place at a small apartment complex on Dugan Avenue in Pratt City just weeks before the double killing of Murray and Smith.
Rogers was found unresponsive that Saturday beside a vehicle that had been struck by multiple bullets. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Police at the time said Rogers was ambushed and targeted.
Johnson was arrested in Rogers’ death in April of 2022, and indicted seven months later.
He was released from jail on bond in January of this year. A trial date in the Rogers cases has not yet been set.
He is also charged with attempted murder in the Oct. 18, 2021, shooting of another man in the neck with an assault rifle. That case has been sent to a grand jury for indictment consideration.
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