Carl Joseph Miserendino III, 35, was found dead beside a house in the 4000 block of 40th Avenue North in the Inglenook area of Birmingham on the evening of January 1, 2021. Birmingham police discovered him about 9:05 p.m.; Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced him deceased. The death was investigated as a homicide and reported as the city’s first of the new year.

Detectives identified 22-year-old Isaiah Williams White as a suspect and a capital murder arrest warrant was issued on January 6, 2021. Authorities located and arrested White in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on January 28, 2021, and recovered Miserendino’s vehicle in Florida. During an interview with a Birmingham detective, White reportedly said he shot and killed Miserendino, calling it accidental and saying it happened while he was stealing the car to return to Florida. White was to be extradited to Alabama to be held in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. He was also accused of setting fire to a Volkswagen Atlas registered to Miserendino and his mother in Palm Coast, Florida, on January 2, 2021, resulting in an arson charge.

What further details about the timeline or motive are known to anyone who followed this case closely?