Angeliyah Webster and Christian Norris, who were expecting a baby, were found shot to death in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. They had been reported missing the day prior when they disappeared after going to a Movie on Valentine’s Day. (Birmingham Police Department)
A couple expecting a child last seen headed to the movies on Valentine’s Day turned up dead, and now cops in Birmingham, Alabama, are trying to figure out who is responsible for their deaths.
Christian Norris and Angeliyah Webster, both 20, were last seen around 5 p.m. on Feb. 14 in a white Ford Taurus. Family members became concerned when they hadn’t heard from them and reported them missing the next day.
“Normally they’d check in throughout the day,” Norris’ cousin Sherita Clark told AL.com. “There’s not a day that goes by that they’re not communicating with someone in their family.”
Birmingham police issued a missing persons alert on Thursday night. Around 4 p.m. Friday cops found the Taurus in Birmingham’s Wylam neighborhood. Norris and Webster were dead inside, suffering from gunshot wounds. Police have yet to make arrests.
“You ever had your heart just stepped on and went to the bottom of your stomach, yeah that’s what that was like,” Webster’s brother Demarco Thomas said in an interview with local ABC affiliate WBMA.
Norris and Webster were expecting a baby and had planned a Disney-themed gender reveal party for April. They were set to find out whether the baby was going to be a “Moana” or a “Maui.”
“They were really happy to be parents,” Clark told AL.com.
Clark described Webster as a “smiley person” who gave “big hugs.” She said Norris was a doting boyfriend who was looking forward to being a father.
Morris and Webster were two of six people found murdered in less than two hours on Friday in Birmingham, a city of about 200,000. Cops also are investigating an unrelated quadruple homicide that occurred around 2:45 p.m. at a car wash on the city’s north side. Police received a ShotSpotter alert and went to the location where they found four men shot. Paramedics pronounced three of the victims dead while they rushed a fourth to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. Detectives believe one or more of the victims were targeted.
“This has been a heartbreaking afternoon for our city,” Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said in a Friday Facebook post. “A half dozen families are in mourning. That includes the family of one of our city employees. That also includes my own family. In two unrelated incidents, four men were killed by gunfire in Smithfield. And in Wylam, two people were found dead. One of them was my cousin. My family is no stranger to the devastating consequences of violence. The pain never gets easier. This level of loss is distressing, unacceptable and cannot — must not — be tolerated.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham police at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
