Lee Otis Montgomery III, 27, is charged with capital murder in the Thursday shooting death of Cornelia Rose Lathan.
A Birmingham man has been charged in the killing of his ex-girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter, and the wounding of her younger brother.Montgomery was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 3:04 p.m. Friday and is being held without bond. The warrants against him were obtained Friday morning.Officers were called to the apartment earlier Wednesday, Chief Scott Thurmond confirmed. They responded to a domestic disturbance, which was verbal not physical.Hours later, sometime before 12:30 p.m.
The children’s mother, who is pregnant, was later transported by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service to an area hospital for observation. Court records show Montgomery was arrested last year on a charge of third-degree domestic violence involving the same woman. Charging documents state he punched the victim in the side of the head and the shoulder with a closed fist.“We have kids out of school, trying to enjoy the summer and we’ve got someone so angry they believe they have to take violence into their hands and shoot into an apartment.
Cornelia is Birmingham’s 70th homicide this year. Of those, seven have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.Man, 34, killed in overnight Tuscaloosa shooting
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