A toddler was killed in a Birmingham public housing complex when gunfire from outside struck him and his mother. Two-year-old Major Noah Omari Turner, a Black male, was inside an apartment in the Kimbrough Homes Housing Community on the evening of February 4, 2021, when the shooting occurred. Major was taken to a local hospital and died several hours later; his mother survived wounds from the same incident.

Police opened an intensive homicide investigation and family and community leaders made emotional appeals for justice. On February 4, 2022, investigators and the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office identified 24-year-old Clearence Speed Jr. as a suspect and obtained a felony murder warrant; Speed was then in the county jail on an unrelated capital murder charge and was booked on the felony murder charge with bond set at $1.5 million.

If anyone in the Kimbrough Homes community that evening saw or heard anything that could help investigators, please come forward.