Tamekia Tana Fluker

Tamekia Tana Fluker was a 40-year-old mother of four living in Sylacauga, Alabama. On the afternoon of Monday, February 26, 2024, she was inside her home on South Main Avenue when her life was cut short. Around 4:00 p.m., several gunshots were fired from the street into the residence. Tamekia, who was sitting on her living room couch, was struck by at least one of the bullets. When officers arrived, they found her and pronounced her deceased at the scene.

Investigators with the Sylacauga Police Department believed that Tamekia was not the intended target of the shooting. Their investigation soon led them to identify a suspect, 16-year-old Jamir De’Jawn Russ. On February 29, 2024, a Talladega County Circuit Judge ruled that Russ would be adjudicated as an adult. On March 4, authorities obtained a two-count capital murder warrant for his arrest.

A joint law enforcement operation involving the Sylacauga Police Investigations Division, the Talladega County Drug Task Force, the US Marshal Service’s Gulf Coast Regional Task Force, and the Talladega County Sheriff’s Office located Russ at a home on Hawk Lane. After a tense, two-hour standoff, he surrendered peacefully and was taken into custody.

Tragically, this was the second homicide to devastate the Fluker family at the same home in less than two years. On July 1, 2022, Tamekia’s younger brother, 22-year-old Nartavius Cortez Fluker-Smith, was shot and killed while sitting in his vehicle in front of the residence. An arrest was made in that case, and suspect Sheridan Rashon Clark was charged with capital murder. He remains in the Talladega County Jail awaiting trial.

Following his arrest, Jamir Russ was transported to the Talladega County Jail, where he is being held without bond on the capital murder charges related to Tamekia Fluker's death. The case is proceeding through the court system as of his arrest in March 2024.