2 killed in separate weekend homicides in Bessemer: ‘Put the guns down,’ says grieving mom
Updated Apr 19, 2021;
Two men were killed in separate weekend incidents in Bessemer, including one who was beaten to death with a kitchen pot and another who was shot while walking home from his grandparents’ house.
Family members say Deterrious Kieth-Bernerd Steele, 21, had left his grandparents’ house Sunday night and was just walking to his girlfriend’s house several blocks away. A short time later, Bessemer police and fire medics were dispatched to Hard Park, also known as Enoch Brown Park, after someone found him wounded.
It wasn’t immediately clear what time the shooting actually happened, but the family last saw him about 7:45 p.m. Steele was found unresponsive at 9:48 p.m. and pronounced dead on the scene.
From The Tribune staff reports
BESSEMER A 21-year-old man has died after being shot at Enoch Brown Park in Bessemer on Sunday night.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim as Deterrious Kieth-Bernerd Steele, 21, of Birmingham.
Authorities say the shooting took place at 7:45 p.m. Sunday and Steele was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 10 p.m. The park is in the 2800 block of Berkley Avenue.
The Bessemer Police Department is investigating the death as a homicide.