UPDATE: Arrest made after woman found shot to death in vehicle
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Birmingham police say a 24-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another woman.
Raven Thompson is in the Jefferson County Jail where she is being held without bond.
Tamaiya Morton was killed on March 7 in the 900 block of 46th Place North.
When officers got to the scene they found a white SUV that had collided into a utility police. Morton was found in the driver’s seat from a gunshot wound.
A preliminary investigation suggests shortly after patrol officers arrived on the scene, officers from the Birmingham Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center alerted patrol officers to the whereabouts of a person of interest in the shooting.
Officers went to a nearby apartment and made contact with the person of interest and took them into custody.
Birmingham Police Detectives presented information on the case to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office. After an assessment of the information, detectives obtained a warrant for capital murder.
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