BIRMINGHAM — Birmingham police have charged a 23-year-old man with murder in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old woman in the Kingston community on Wednesday night.
Dylan Nash was charged with murder and with certain persons forbidden to possess a firearm in the death of Makayla May Riley, according to the Birmingham Police Department. Nash is being held at the Jefferson County Jail with no bond.
Officers responded at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday to an apartment in the 800 block of 44th Place North at Rev. Dr. Morrell Todd Homes, after a report of a shooting. Riley was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:28 p.m. Police said their preliminary investigation indicated a verbal altercation took place before the shooting.
Riley was Birmingham’s 41st homicide victim of 2026, according to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, and the city’s fifth homicide since Saturday. It was the second fatal shooting in the Kingston community in less than 24 hours.