Justice · Ensley shootingEnsley fatal shooting: Two charged with capital murder in Jaxon Bearden's deathAired October 26, 2026 at 11:48 PM UTCWritten October 27, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07Two men face capital murder charges in the shooting that killed twenty one-year-old0:11Jackson True Beardon.0:12A woman was also wounded in Birmingham's Ensleigh neighborhood.0:15The charges moved the case forward after police initially detained two suspects on0:19temporary felony holds.0:21Police have named the defendants, but what led to the gunfire still hasn't been0:24explained.0:25The defendants are Darius Ramon McConas,18 of Birmingham, and John Mary's Antonio0:29Robinson,20 of Mobile, both have been charged with capital murder in Beardon's0:33death.0:34The charges were announced October twenty-sixth.0:36Beardon was from Alabaster.0:38The Jefferson County Coroner's Office identified him after police initially withheld0:42his name while his family was being notified.0:44His death is being investigated as a homicide.0:47Beardon was shot in the two thousand four hundred block of Avenue B in Ensley on0:51October twenty-four, two thousand twenty-six.0:53Officers were dispatched around nine fourteen that night after a shot spotter0:57gunfire alert and a report that someone had been shot.1:00Officers found a man with an apparent gunshot wound.1:02Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service took Bearden to UAB Hospital with life,1:06threatening injuries.1:07Beardon was pronounced dead at UAB Hospital at ten six that night.1:11The woman wounded in the same shooting reached UAB by private vehicle.1:15She was treated there for a gunshot wound police described as non-life threatening.1:19Police say officers from the North and South Precincts detained two suspects after1:23receiving information about the shooting.1:24They say the arrests happened within roughly thirty minutes of the gunfire.1:28Police initially held the two at Birmingham City Jail on forty-eight-hour felony1:32holds, pending formal charges.1:34At that stage, police hadn't released their names.1:36By October twenty, six Maconis and Robinson had been identified and charged with1:40capital murder.1:41The prosecution still has to prove its accusations against each defendant in court.1:45A charge alone doesn't prove that either man committed the crime.1:48Birmingham police designated this the city's thirty five murder investigation of two1:52thousand and twenty-six.1:53Their count follows a reporting approach that allows agencies to leave out1:56justifiable death investigations.1:58That means it shouldn't be treated as a total of every shooting death in Birmingham.2:02The new charges identify the two men accused in Beardon's death.2:05Police still haven't explained what led to the gunfire, and no court date has been2:09announced.2:10Prosecutors must now prove their accusations against McConnus and Robinson.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗
