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Woman charged with capital murder in blunt force trauma death of Birmingham toddler
Updated May 11, 2021;
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A 34-year-old woman is charged with capital murder in the December blunt force trauma death of her boyfriend’s toddler daughter.
Tykeila Johnson is charged in the killing of 18-month-old Kar’Mynn Brachelle Gaines. The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Tykeila Lesha Johnson on Monday, five months to the day after Kar’Mynn died.
Kar’Mynn was injured Nov. 16 and then taken off life support Dec. 10, 2020. The charge is capital because of the victim’s age.
Marshals took Johnson into custody about 2:45 p.m. at an apartment in the 20 block of Sixth Avenue North in Birmingham. She was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 8:09 p.m. Monday and remains held without bond.
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His mother, Nedra Smith, thinks about her first-born, just 15-years-old, every day and every night.
She thinks about how she was just beginning to know what it felt like to have a full-fledged teenager with his driver’s license just around the corner.
She thinks about him when his five younger siblings want to know why they can’t see him.
She thinks about how much help he was as the man of the family, and how that burden now rests on her 13-year-old.
“I don’t sleep because my mind is constantly racing, trying to put together the who and the why,’ Smith said. “I just don’t get what was so bad, so horrible for you to still have life and my child doesn’t. It’s like one of those movies where you are left hanging. I don’t have an ending.”
The Birmingham Times
The redevelopment of the former Carraway Hospital site near downtown Birmingham moved one step closer to reality when the City Council approved a $13.2 million incentive package for the project.
“This project is a game changer for the city of Birmingham and I’m particularly excited about the potential tenants that may be coming there but also the fact that it’s going to involve a variety of housing types including workforce housing,” said Councilor Darrell O’Quinn, who represents parts of the area.
The project is bigger than just the Northside community, he said.
“It’s not only the Carraway Hospital campus but there are surrounding parcels that were part of this deal. The total impact of this is huge. When you combine it with the work that is being done at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, the City Walk project under the 20-59 bridge, Southtown redevelopment, we’re talking billions of dollars in reinvestments in the city of Birm
Birmingham toddler’s blunt force trauma death ruled a homicide
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
The blunt force trauma death of a Birmingham girl who died two days ago has been ruled a homicide.
Birmingham police on Saturday said foul play was involved in the death of Kar’Mynn Brachelle Gaines. The 18-month died hours after she was taken off life support Thursday afternoon at Children’s of Alabama.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office said Kar’Mynn suffered blunt force trauma to the head. She was injured sometime on Monday, Nov. 16. The injury happened at a private residence in the 600 block of Carraway Boulevard while in the care of someone other than her parents.