Birmingham police said on Saturday that the bodies of an Alabama couple who vanished on Valentine’s Day were discovered inside their car on Friday.
Police claimed that on Valentine’s Day, Christian Norris, 20, and his girlfriend, Angeliyah Webster, 20, went on a date to the movies in a white Ford Taurus. That was the last time they were seen together.
The couple was reported missing on Thursday, according to the police. Less than a day later, their car was found. Inside the automobile, investigators discovered a deceased couple who appeared to have been shot.
According to a police news statement, the couple’s preliminary investigation indicates that they were both the victims of a homicide. As of Saturday, nobody was in custody.
“You ever had your heart just stepped on and [it] went to the bottom of your stomach? Yeah, that’s what that was like,” Webster’s brother Demarco Thomas told ABC affiliate WBMA, reflecting on the news of his sister’s death.
There is a current investigation. Two hours before, four individuals were slain in a neighboring shooting that took place immediately before the two bodies were discovered.
In a statement addressing the two incidents, Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond said, “Birmingham experienced an unfathomable amount of senseless violence.”
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin claimed in a Facebook statement that one of the two victims who was last seen on Valentine’s Day was his cousin.
“My family is no stranger to the devastating consequences of violence. The pain never gets easier,” the mayor wrote. “This level of loss is distressing, unacceptable and cannot – must not – be tolerated.”
