Morgan Terrell Brown, 33, was fatally shot shortly before 5:00 p.m. on January 3, 2026, in the parking lot of an apartment complex on First Avenue South in Birmingham’s East Lake neighborhood. He was found inside his vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene; authorities have described the incident as a robbery and it was the city’s first homicide of the year.

Within a day, police arrested three people. Two were publicly identified as 19-year-old Dante Lamar Mitchell of Hoover and 18-year-old Joshua de Albert Muse. The third arrestee is a 15-year-old whose name has not been released. All three were charged in connection with Brown’s death; Mitchell and Muse were charged with capital murder and held in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. The 15-year-old faces capital murder and a separate charge of possession of a firearm by a forbidden person.

Anyone who knew Morgan Terrell Brown or who has information about the shooting or the apartment complex parking area is asked to come forward.