By james art An 18-year-old has been charged in the May shooting of another teenager in Birmingham.
Cameron Jayveon Scales of Bessemer has been charged with homicide in the May 15 shooting death of 18-year-old Ja’Quavious James “Quay” Weston, Birmingham police said Wednesday.
Scales was arrested Wednesday in the 1000 block of Huckleberry Lane in Hoover by the Birmingham Police Department’s Special Enforcement Unit and Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies. He was then booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 3:54 p.m., and remains held without bond.
West Precinct officers responded to the Ensley Highlands neighborhood at 11:23 p.m. that Wednesday after dispatchers received two Shot Spotter reports in the area, one registering 12 shots fired and the other indicating six shots fired.
The location was in the 2400 block of Avenue W.
Sergeant LaQuitta Wade said when officers arrived they encountered two people who lived in the area.
They told police they had just arrived home and did not see anything unusual or hear any gunshots.
A young Birmingham man was shot outside his family’s home on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, on Avenue W.(Carol Robinson)
However, they reported that another family member called them that shots had been fired outside the home.
Wade said officers searched the area but found no houses or cars that appeared to be damaged by bullets. They saw nothing unusual and left.
At 11:53 p.m., police were called back to the home.
Wade said that after officers left the first time, the family continued to investigate the area and that’s when they found Weston about 15 feet away in a wooded area near their house.
Weston was found unresponsive on the ground and pronounced dead by Birmingham Fire and Rescue at 12:07 a.m.
Wade said investigators learned a family member heard the victim on the phone arguing with someone. Soon after, shots were fired, after which she lost sight of the victim.
The motive has not been disclosed.