On July 24, 2008, a quadruple homicide in Birmingham, Alabama, left 11-year-old Justin McFarland, his 13-year-old brother Jerome McFarland, their 34-year-old mother Elizabeth McFarland Witherspoon, and their 37-year-old stepfather Derrick Antonio Witherspoon Sr. dead of gunshot wounds. The killers then set the family’s home on fire in an apparent effort to conceal the crime.

Authorities arrested two suspects from nearby Bessemer: 18-year-old Shaunasty Lowe and 19-year-old Steven Jamal Williams, both charged with capital murder and held without bond. Court filings from 2010 show Lowe faced nine counts of capital murder; during his trial a witness who planned to testify was allegedly assaulted by another inmate at Lowe’s behest in an apparent attempt to obstruct testimony.

Does anyone have remembered details from Birmingham in 2008 or information about the legal resolution in this case?