Man found dead after nearly 50 shots fired in west Birmingham, survives shooting outside Hush Lounge

A young man is dead after police said nearly 50 shots rang out in a west Birmingham neighborhood Tuesday evening.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Ty’Keem Dishad Moore. He was 22.

Moore was one of the A mass shooting in September injured 17 people outside the Hush lounge in Five Points South killing four others, according to court records. Moore was shot, but details surrounding his injuries were not immediately clear.

Damien Laron McDaniel III is charged with assault stemming from Moore’s injuries in September. McDaniel, 22, of Fairfield, is now accused of killing 11 people and injuring 29 others in five incidents between July and September.

Moore’s death was discovered after West Precinct officers responded to a report of a person shot in the 1800 block of Princeton Court SW Alley on Tuesday around 11:45 p.m.

They arrived to find Moore on the side of the alley, dead from at least one gunshot wound.

Sergeant LaQuitta Wade said that at 10:10 p.m., officers were dispatched to the neighborhood based on three different Shot Spotter reports that recorded a total of 49 shots fired in the 1800 block of Princeton Court, which is in front of the location where Moore was shot. found.

During that initial response to the area, officers recovered several shell casings and recorded gunshot damage to two vehicles and a home. However, they found no one injured.

More than an hour later they were called back to the neighborhood. It is believed that a relative of the victim found him dead.

Investigators said it appears Moore ran away after being shot and collapsed in the alley.

Birmingham murder case De. 9, 2024 — A young man was shot and killed Tuesday, December 9, 2024, in the 1800 block of Princeton Court SW in Birmingham. His body was found in a nearby alley.(Carol Robinson)

Moore is the 147th person to die in a homicide in Birmingham in 2024 and the city’s first fatal shooting in more than two weeks.

Of the 147 murders, 11 were declared justified and therefore not considered criminal. One of the murders was an officer-involved shooting, and two others were shootings that occurred in previous years, but the victims died in 2024.

There have been 187 homicides in all of Jefferson County, including the 147 in Birmingham.

Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.