March 14 (UPI) -- An Alabama man was in police custody Tuesday on accusations of fatally shooting two people at a residence in Birmingham before traveling to St. Clair County where he killed again for a total of four victims.
Daniel Watson, 28, of Pell City was arrested early Tuesday by officers in St. Clair County where he has been booked into the Ashville jail on one count of capital murder and one count of murder with a gun.
Authorities say he killed four people at two residences separated by more than two dozen miles. The motive was unknown though Birmingham Police Department officer Truman Fitzgerald said in a recorded statement that they believe "the suspect knows some of the victims."
The murder spree first became known to deputies in St. Clair County shortly after midnight Tuesday when deputies responded to a disturbance call on Drive Ragland. They discovered a White woman deceased from an apparent gunshot in the driveway of the residence, the St. Clair County Sheriff Billy Murray said in a statement.
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