A woman was shot to death in the parking lot of a Birmingham fast-food restaurant.
The shooting happened outside of Church’s Chicken on Third Avenue North near the Smithfield community at 11:45 p.m. Sunday. The restaurant had already closed for the night.
North Precinct officers responded to a report of a person down at the location. They arrived to find 25-year-old Darneshia Mosley, who was a mother, unresponsive from a gunshot wound.
Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service transported Mosley to UAB Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
A woman was shot to death in Birmingham on July 3, 2022. (Google Maps)
Lt. Rod Mauldin said the preliminary investigation suggests the incident was domestic in nature. A male suspect has been taken into custody.
Mosley is the city’s 68th homicide this year. Of those, five have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 92 homicides, including the 68 in Birmingham.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
