9-year-old boy critical after self-inflicted gunshot wound in Fairfield: Police
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
A 9-year-old boy is fighting for his life at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham after sustaining a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday evening in Fairfield, police said.
Around 5:05 p.m. Thursday, officers from the Birmingham Police Department’s West Precinct responded to the 5100 block of Myron Massey Boulevard in Fairfield on a call of a child shot, said police spokesman Sgt. Rod Mauldin.
The 9-year-old boy was taken to Children’s Hospital with life-threatening injuries, Mauldin said.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.
Further information was unavailable.
Fairfield mom indicted in 10-month-old son’s 2018 blunt force trauma death
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
A Fairfield mother is behind bars, accused in the death of her young son more than two years ago.
The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force took 25-year-old Maya Nacole Freeman into custody Friday afternoon. She was arrested at 3 p.m. in the 4600 block of Pinson Valley Parkway. She also uses the aliaa Tia Nacole Freeman which is actually a relative’s name.
Freeman is charged with manslaughter and aggravated child abuse. The charges stem from grand jury indictments issued in December out of the Bessemer Cutoff.