A Saturday night shooting in Brighton left a man dead and a woman in custody.
Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies responded at 9:43 p.m. to a report of a person down in the 4000 block of Letson Street.
Deputies arrived and found a 39-year-old man dead from a gunshot wound, said sheriff’s spokesman Henry Irby. The victim’s name has not been released.
Jameshia Cheana Chavers, 33, is charged with capital murder. The Midfield woman was booked into the county jail at 1:32 p.m. Sunday and remains held without bond.
Authorities have not disclosed a motive or said why the charge is a capital crime.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call investigators at 205-325-1450 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
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