The three new charges announced against McDaniel Tuesday are all capital murder charges and bring his total number of known victims to 14.
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reminds me of the lee boyd malvo/john allen muhammed shyt back in the day
Smh the article is wild. No
nikka had prior history of breaking parole, stealing guns, and they let him go early off 2 attempted murder charges
In 2021 Nikka picked up attempted murder charge while on parole for attempted murders
McDaniel was charged in October 2019 with two counts of attempted murder and discharging firearm in occupied dwelling or vehicle for shooting into a car with two people inside. Hours after his preliminary hearing in January 2020, court records show he was stopped by Birmingham Police and found...
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Court records reveal violent history of Birmingham mass shooting suspect
Damien McDaniel was serving probation for two attempted murder convictions when BPD says he went on a violent crime spree
By
Morgan Hightower
Published: Oct. 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM CDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (
WBRC) -The first publicly available criminal record for the man accused in a violent crime spree that spanned four days and ended with six people dead and 19 wounded is from 2019 when Damien McDaniel was 17-years-old.
WBRC 6 News reviewed dozens of pages of court documents to uncover McDaniel’s violent criminal past.
McDaniel was charged in Oct. 2019 with two counts of attempted murder and discharging firearm in occupied vehicle for shooting into a car with two people inside. Hours after his preliminary hearing in Jan. 2020, court records show he was stopped by Birmingham Police and found with two guns.
According to a motion to revoke bond filed days after that arrest, McDaniel told officers the guns belonged to him and that one was stolen out of Cleburne County. That motion also shared information about McDaniel’s juvenile record, including a “former charge for certain persons forbidden.”
A hearing for the bond revocation was scheduled in Feb. 2020.
McDaniel did not appear because he was in the custody of the Department of Youth Services following his arrest by BPD.
He was released after six months,
according to court records, and in a hearing in Sept. 2020, McDaniel was released on bond with a GPS device and placed on home confinement.
Three months later in December, prosecutors filed a motion showing evidence McDaniel “has gone AWOL from the Electronic Monitoring Program.”
An email from a program administrator shared with the court revealed McDaniel’s aunt removed his GPS device “because she was mad at [McDaniel’s mother] so she took it out on [McDaniel]” and threw the device in the trash can.
The judge revoked McDaniel’s bond on Dec. 2, 2022 and issued an arrest warrant.
That warrant was served in Mar. 2021 when McDaniel was picked up on a new attempted murder charge, according to court records.
The charge stemmed from a shooting on Jan. 31, 2021 when a man was shot on 41st Street in Birmingham. Another person was also charged in this case.
In April, McDaniel’s attorney asked for his client’s bond to be reduced, writing in a motion, “defendant respectfully presents that he poses no real and present danger to others, himself, or the public at large if allowed to be released upon such terms and conditions as appear mete and appropriate in these premises.”
McDaniel’s bond was set at $60,000.
A few weeks later, his attorney filed a motion to reconsider after McDaniel’s co-defendant’s charge was dismissed. According to the court filing, “the alleged victim appeared in person and testified before this honorable court that he was unable to identify either of alleged defendants.”
During a hearing in late May 2021 though, that same victim identified McDaniel as the person who shot him. The victim said he knew McDaniel because his mother’s ex-husband knew McDaniel’s father.
The judge did not dismiss
McDaniel’s charge and the case was referred to the Grand Jury but was no billed and the case was dropped. The charges were not refiled.
It appears McDaniel remained in custody in the two attempted murder charges from October 2019 until he pleaded guilty in April 2023.
He received a 15-year sentence split to serve two years in prison and three years on probation. He had 796 days of jail credit when he was sentenced, according to court records