Man charged with attempted murder for trying to run over officers guarding Birmingham homicide victim’s funeral, police say


A Birmingham man is behind bars after authorities said he tried to run over police who were keeping watch over the funeral of a homicide victim.

Brighton police in May announced they were trying to identify the suspect with whom they had a run-in while conducting a security detail at a funeral for a Birmingham homicide victim.

Brighton police and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies were at the funeral of 19-year-old Davion Marcell Hickley, who was killed April 25 in a shooting that injured three others at a large gathering in the 800 block of Third Avenue West. Law enforcement had received word that someone was going to “shoot up” the church where the funeral was being held, which was on April 30 at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.
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