A 34-year-old suspect is being charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a Birmingham man who was found dead in his home during a safety check.
Bryan Keith Williams, 43, was killed, and Larry Dewayne Kimble Jr., who is 34 years old, is being charged with his death. The charge is a death crime, according to jail records, because Williams was killed during a robbery.
On the same day that the body of Bryan Keith Williams, 43, was discovered, Larry Dewayne Kimble Jr., 34, was in a Jefferson County courtroom to go on trial for kidnapping and rape. Authorities believe that Williams was killed about 9 p.m. on June 25. https://t.co/p5gMpTkbCA
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On the same day that Williams’s body was found on 13th Avenue North, Kimble was in a Jefferson County courtroom to stand trial for kidnapping and raping.
The trial didn’t even start, though, because the victim said under oath that she would say the charges against Kimble weren’t true if she was called to witness.
Monday, June 26, just before 1 p.m., officers from Birmingham’s South Precinct were sent to Williams’ home in the 4300 block of 13th Avenue North in the city’s Kingston area.
Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said that when a friend went to visit Williams, the front door was open, and the house was a mess.
At that point, the friend had not seen Williams, but he or she was worried and called 911 to check on Williams’ health.
Officers entered the house and discovered Williams unresponsive on the floor. He was declared dead at the scene.
Wade stated that the victim had been fatally shot. It wasn’t immediately apparent when he was last seen alive.
The police think Williams was killed on June 25 around 9 p.m. Kimble and others said they were at the house to buy drugs, but detectives think it was a set up to rob the victim.
Kimble was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 1:31 p.m. on Wednesday. It wasn’t clear right away what led officers to him. He is being kept in jail without a bail.
Kimble was in a courtroom in Jefferson County hours before Williams’ body was found. He was there to face charges of kidnapping and rape that came from his arrest in 2020 by Trussville police. A woman told the cops that Kimble took her against her will, drove her to St. Clair County, and raped her there.
Case 2020 was set to go to court on June 26. Instead, the case had to be thrown out because the victim swore under oath that she wouldn’t help the prosecutors.
Kimble has been in trouble with the law for a long time, going back more than a decade. In April, he was caught on charges of trying to get away, having marijuana, and having drug paraphernalia.
He is also going to trial because he has been charged with selling Oxycodone, getting stolen property, and illegally having marijuana. This week, prosecutors in Jefferson County asked for Kimble’s bonds in those cases to be canceled because of the new capital murder charge against him. Today, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Alaric May agreed with that request.
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