On the night of June 12, 2022, a pool party at the High Pointe apartment complex on Beacon Parkway East in Birmingham turned deadly when gunfire erupted around 10:30 p.m. A confrontation between a resident and some partygoers escalated, and 24-year-old Frankie Keonta McDonald was shot in the parking lot. McDonald was taken to a nearby hospital and died of his injuries. Two other people, a 17-year-old and a 21-year-old, were wounded and treated at the hospital.

Police located and arrested a suspect at a nearby apartment. Jessica Threatt, 38, of Birmingham, was charged with one count of murder in McDonald’s death and two counts of attempted murder for the wounded victims; she was booked into the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at more than $1.6 million. During the response a police officer discharged a firearm; no one was hit and the department’s Internal Affairs Division opened an investigation into that use of force.

If anyone at the High Pointe complex that night or with information about the confrontation can help, please share what you know.