A 23-year-old has been charged in the fatal shooting of a beloved Birmingham high school football coach.

De’Corlion Keshaun Robinson is charged with murder in the Wednesday night slaying of 39-year-old Demetrice Darnell Beverly. Robinson is also charged with unlawful possession of a machine gun conversion device.

He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 8:47 p.m. Thursday, and is being held without bond in the Jefferson County Jail.

Birmingham’s South Precinct officers responded shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday to a 911 call of a person shot at the apartment complex.

Police went into the apartment and found Beverly unresponsive in the apartment’s bedroom, said Sgt. LaQuitta Wade.

Beverly’s father said his son was visiting a female friend and was shot multiple times with a Glock

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