Authorities have released the name of a young Birmingham father shot to death while in a vehicle with his children.
Birmingham police on Saturday night identified the victim as Demarkus Etwan Moss. He was 22.
Moss, a father of four, had his infant son and toddler daughter with him and they were driving on the city’s westside Friday evening. Investigators say someone from another vehicle opened fire into his vehicle.
The gunfire happened in the 800 block of Arkadelphia Road, just in front of Birmingham-Southern College.
Moss was shot multiple times, but continued to drive, making it almost to Interstate 59/20 before he collided with another vehicle in the 1000 block of Arkadelphia Road.
Officers from Birmingham’s North and West precincts were dispatched to the wreck scene at 5:50 p.m. They arrived to find Moss slumped over and unresponsive and rushed him to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Moss’ toddler daughter was also unresponsive and taken to Children’s of Alabama where her family said she continues the fight to recover.
Officers said she suffered injuries in the crash. There were early reports from the scene that she was also shot, but as of Saturday those reports were still not confirmed, police said. Moss’ son was also injured in the wreck but is expected to be OK.
Several occupants of the other vehicle were also hurt. Those injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
No arrests have been announced.
“We’re dealing with an individual that was traveling on the roadway with his small children, someone opened fire on the vehicle and struck this young man with his kids,” Officer Truman Fitzgerald said. “If that doesn’t send a message to our community that we have got to do something, then we don’t know what else to say.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
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