An Alabama man was arrested after he allegedly opened fire at relatives and family friends Thursday afternoon killing two and critically wounding two others.
Police were called to a home in the 1600 block of Dennison Avenue in Birmingham over reports of a shooting at 4:45 p.m.
There they pronounced a grandmother, later identified as 49-year-old Laquitta Charisse Dunn, deceased at the scene.
A man, identified as the suspect’s father, suffered life-threatening injuries and showed up at Princeton Baptist Medical Center after leaving the shooting scene.
Officers learned that the suspect, 31-year-old Kerry Jackson Jr., had forced a woman into a vehicle and made her drive him to another address where he shot two other victims.
Jackson’s grandfather, 76-year-old Anthony Jackson, was killed in the second home in the 1400 block of 17th Place S.W., not far from the first crime scene.
Jackson and the woman he kidnapped were located at that scene. The woman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
“So, this is a shooter who knew every single person who he shot,” Officer Truman Fitzgerald said
