Two separate homicides in Birmingham involve men named TaNarius Moore but different victims and circumstances. The first is 5-year-old TaNarius Moore, known as TJ, who was killed in December 2019 after a stray bullet struck him while he sat in a vehicle during an exchange of gunfire between two related women. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Authorities arrested Rickkia Allen and charged her with capital murder; a grand jury returned an indictment in October 2020 and prosecutors announced an intention to seek the death penalty. Some reports say Allen later accepted a plea that resulted in a 21-year prison term. TJ’s grandmother said she wanted the responsible person to spend the rest of their life in prison, and his father had been killed by gun violence two years earlier.

The second case involved a different Ta'Narius Moore, age 25, killed in May 2017 in a daytime shooting tied to a long-standing feud. Police said the men exchanged words and one produced a gun and shot Moore multiple times. Investigators believed they knew the shooter but cited uncooperative witnesses at the scene. Later reports have described that death as a justifiable homicide, alleging Moore fired first, which would account for no criminal prosecution. If anyone has information about either of these shootings, please share what is known.