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.