Mills, 18, was shot early Sunday in Pinson, Alabama, in a heavily wooded area referred to as The Pit, according to AL.com. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that the suspect, 27-year-old Steven Tyler Whitehead, showed up at around 12:24 a.m. and fired his gun several times after a verbal and physical fight. WVTM reported the shooting took place at a bonfire.

Prosecutors charged Whitehead with three counts of attempted murder and he is being held on a $180,000 bond.

Ashley Mills, the victim’s sister, shared on Facebook that Kimber died on Wednesday night. Kimber was a senior at Cleveland High School, where she ran track and was also a cheerleader.

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Kimber Mills, 18, was planning to attend the University of Alabama in 2026. (Rylie Cirbo)

“Our sweet baby sister went to be with the Lord at 7:08 p.m. last night! She has had the biggest gathering for honor walk the doc has ever seen! She was and is so loved by so many. We will miss you Kimber! Everyone is free to share this post anywhere they feel necessary!” Ashley Mills wrote on Facebook.

“Kimber was caught in the crossfire,” she told AL.com.

Silas McCay, 21, told WBRC he was shot 10 times — in the leg, hip, rib cage, stomach, finger, pelvis and thigh while trying to protect his friends, including Kimber Mills. McCay is expected to recover and could leave the hospital as soon as Friday.

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Silas McCay said he was shot 10 times in the leg, hip, rib cage, stomach, finger, pelvis and thigh while trying to protect his friends. (GoFundMe)

“I look at her like a little sister to me. I tried everything I could. I wish there was more I could’ve done,” McCay said.

McCay said the suspect was trying to talk to Kimber before a fight ensued.

“My ex-girlfriend came up to me at the party and said he was trying to do stuff to this girl named Kimber,” McCay said. “My buddy and I found him, and we started fighting him. I grabbed him and put him over my shoulder and had him on the ground. My buddy pulled me off him, and that’s when he pulled his gun out and started shooting.”

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Steven Tyler Whitehead was arrested in relation to the shooting. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office)

Despite being hospitalized, McCay said he visited Kimber on Sunday.

“She was telling me she loved me by squeezing my hand,” McCay said.

Kimber Mills was planning to attend the University of Alabama in 2026 with hopes of becoming a nurse.

MISSISSIPPI HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME SHOOTING: 4 SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER 6 DEAD, 20 INJURED

Kimber Mills, 18, was a cheerleader at Cleveland High School. (Rylie Cirbo)

Ashley Mills previously said her sister’s injuries were too severe, adding an honor walk was held on Tuesday afternoon.

“She has too much trauma to her brain,” Ashley Mills said. “She is breathing on her own with an assisted breathing machine… We do have her on a DNR because we don’t want to hurt her anymore trying to bring her back. We’ve already got it set up for her to be an organ donor because that’s what she wanted.”

“She had a little spunk to her step,” she said.

Trussville Police Chief Eric Rush said Kimber Mills was shot in the head and leg and was taken to UAB Hospital in Birmingham.

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Rylie Cirbo, who knew Kimber Mills, told Fox News Digital: “I’d much rather her be known for her sunshine personality and big smile rather than the tragedy.”

“I’m thankful for all the joy she’s brought my other friends,” she said. “She seemed like a very bright light in so many lives.”

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Sophia Forchas was left fighting for her life after a gunman opened fire during the deadly Aug. 27 attack. She was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition and underwent emergency surgery, during which doctors removed part of her skull to relieve swelling. She was then placed in a medically induced coma, according to FOX 9.

A crowd of supporters lined the sidewalk outside Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) on Thursday with signs to greet Forchas, who had been treated at HCMC and most recently had undergone rehabilitation at Gillette Children’s.

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Sophia Forchas, an Annunciation Church and School mass shooting survivor, and her father, Tom Forchas, right, are greeted by well-wishers outside the Hennepin County Medical Center on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Minneapolis. (The Catholic Spirit/Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis via AP)

Sophia’s parents said her release marked “one of the most extraordinary days of our lives.”

“Our beloved daughter, Sophia, is coming home!!” they wrote on a GoFundMe page set up to raise funds for her recovery. The page has generated nearly $1.2 million in donations.

“We are overwhelmed with gratitude for the remarkable medical professionals whose skill, compassion, and unwavering dedication brought us to this moment,” her parents wrote.

They thanked doctors and rehabilitation teams at HCMC and Gillette Children’s Hospital and said Sophia is now walking, swimming and “even dribbling a basketball.”

Sophia Forchas, center, poses with members of her care and rehabilitation team outside an ambulance after being discharged from Gillette Children’s Hospital on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota. (GoFundMe)

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“Each step she takes is a living testament to the boundless grace of God and the miraculous power of prayer,” the couple said.

The Forchas family also offered prayers for those killed and injured in the Aug. 27 shooting, writing, “May their memory be eternal.”

Two children, Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski, were killed in the mass shooting and 18 people — 15 of them children — were injured.

Sophia’s mother is a pediatric critical care nurse who was at work at Hennepin Healthcare when she discovered that her daughter was among the injured, according to The Associated Press.

Forchas’ brother was also inside the school during the shooting but was not injured, her parents said.

Sophia Forchas, right, was shot in the head during the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Forchas Family)

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The alleged gunman, Robin Westman, formerly Robert Westman, opened fire from outside the school at around 10 a.m., moments after students had gathered for mass, and many children were in the pews.

The horror unfolded for about 10 minutes before Westman, who was transgender, killed himself with his own weapon, police said.

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Enrique Gomez-Urbina, 21, of Mexico, was arrested by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and is charged with first-degree murder, according to the Austin Police Department.

He has an immigration detainer pending the homicide investigation, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Two of Gomez-Urbina’s “associates,” Jesus Llamas-Yanez, 48, of Mexico, who is wanted by federal authorities in Mexico for a weapons charge, and Javier Roman Hernandez, of Mexico, are being extradited back to Mexico.

Split of Austin, Texas and murder suspects (Jay Janner/American-Statesman/USA Today Network; Austin Police Department; DHS)

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On Oct. 6, a local tire shop employee found a woman’s body in a wooded area behind the business with “apparent trauma,” according to police.

The woman, later identified as Mary Gonzales, was allegedly shot to death, according to the Travis County Medical Examiner’s office.

Authorities said the night before, they pulled over Gomez-Urbina about a mile away from the scene after he failed to stop at a stop sign, FOX 7 Austin reported.

Inside his car, police allegedly found opened beer bottles, a Glock handgun and ammunition, according to the report.

The woman was found dead earlier this month behind a tire shop in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/American-Statesman/USA TODAY NETWORK)

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Surveillance footage showed a car matching Gomez-Urbina’s near the body about an hour before he was stopped by police, FOX 7 reported.

Modelo bottles and a spent cartridge case, from the same ammunition found in Gomez-Urbina’s car, were also found at the scene.

It is unclear where the two illegal immigrants entered the U.S., and how long they were in the country illegally.

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U.S. Marshals Service officials told the men tried to run after the crime, but were later caught.

It is unclear when and where Gomez-Urbina illegally entered the U.S.

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He is being held in the Travis County Jail on $254,000 bond.

Hernandez entered the U.S. using the Customs and Border Protection CBP One app, according to officials.

“President [Donald] Trump and [Homeland Security] Secretary [Kristi] Noem will not allow criminal aliens to walk freely on U.S. streets,” an ICE official told Fox News Digital. “ICE will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing alien offenders from the U.S.”

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The Wood County Sheriff’s Office announced that Christopher Revak was behind the death of Deidre Harm, officially closing a case that had gone unsolved for nearly two decades.

On Oct. 20, the Wood County Sheriff’s Office shared a letter from District Attorney Jonathan Barnett on Facebook stating that he would have filed charges against Revak if he were still alive.

“I consider this case closed,” Barnett wrote. “I believe I had enough to charge and, if Mr. Revak were still alive, win at trial.”

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Douglas County Sheriff Chris Degase spoke to Fox News Digital about his experience investigating the case of Christopher Revak. (Wood County Sheriff’s Department)

Harm, a 21-year-old single mother, disappeared after a night out at a downtown Wisconsin Rapids bar June 10, 2006. Her remains were discovered five months later by hunters in a wooded area near Seneca, about 5 miles from downtown, according to WSAW.

“This may provide some closure for many but won’t bring Deidre back,” the Wood County Sheriff’s Office and Wisconsin Rapids Police said in a joint statement. “Our thoughts and prayers will always be with Deidre’s family.”

Revak, a Wisconsin native and former EMT, died by suicide in a Missouri jail cell in July 2009, just one day after being charged with second-degree murder in the death of Rene Williams, 36, a mother of three from Mansfield, Missouri.

Williams was last seen March 13, 2007, at the Eagle Lodge bar in Ava, Missouri, where she worked. Revak was also at the bar that night, according to FOX 9.

In 2024, KCCI Des Moines reported that Iowa and Wisconsin investigators were taking a fresh look at Revak, who had long been suspected of multiple violent crimes before his death.

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Investigators have never found Jodi Huisentruit, who was declared legally dead in 2001, The Associated Press reported. (ABC News Studios)

According to a recent documentary, police have examined whether Revak may have been connected to as many as five different homicides over a 14-year span, including the disappearance of Huisentruit.

Douglas County Sheriff Chris Degase, who investigated Williams’ case, previously told Fox News Digital that Revak’s confirmed link to Harm’s killing deepened his concerns about the former EMT’s violent history.

“When I started working on the Christopher Revak case, he was my suspect in the murder of Rene Williams,” Degase said. “I didn’t think it was his first go-around at it.”

Degase told KY3 that forensic evidence linked Revak to Williams’ disappearance.

“We had his DNA at the scene. We had her DNA inside his truck,” he said. “I think the biggest thing was that they weren’t able to find a body. They had no witnesses to come forward to say that she was dead.”

Despite the lack of a body, investigators charged Revak with Williams’ murder based on DNA results. Degase said his curiosity about similar crimes led him to uncover chilling parallels.

“It wasn’t the first time Revak tried to abduct a woman in Ava,” he said. “Actually, shortly after his arrest, I Google searched ‘women abducted from bars’ in all the towns that he had lived in. And when I Google searched from Wisconsin Rapids, Deidre Harm came up.”

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That discovery prompted Degase to reach out to Wisconsin investigators, sharing his findings and helping connect the dots between cases.

“I don’t believe in coincidences,” he said. “I called the authorities out there and gave them the information I had.”

Degase, who is featured in the documentary discussing the case, said Williams and Huisentruit remain missing, a detail that still haunts him. He didn’t rule out the possibility Revak could have traveled to Iowa.

“Obviously, [Jodi] wasn’t abducted from a bar, but I just thought it was odd,” Degase said.

He added that Revak “had a dark side.”

“We’re dealing with what’s possibly a serial killer,” Degase told KY3. “During his day, he’s doing his deed to society and helping people and saving people, but there was a dark side to Chris Revak.”

Revak had also been a person of interest in the 1995 disappearance of Huisentruit, a 27-year-old morning anchor for KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa.

Huisentruit vanished around 4 a.m. on June 27, 1995, after calling a colleague to say she was on her way to work but never arriving. Police found signs of a struggle outside her apartment, including a pair of high heels and a bent car key near her car.

She was declared legally dead in 2001, though her body has never been found.

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Jodi Huisentruit was a TV anchor before she disappeared in 1995. (Findjodi.com)

At the time, Mason City Police said there was no evidence linking Revak to the case. However, in 2024, investigators from Wisconsin and Iowa reconnected to compare notes about him, according to FindJodi.com.

Authorities had also looked into whether Revak’s ex-wife once lived in the same house as one of the last people to see Huisentruit alive but determined she moved out six months before the anchor’s disappearance.

Despite three decades of dead ends, then-Mason City Police Chief Jeff Brinkley said in June the department continues to receive and pursue leads year-round.

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Flyers publicizing Jodi Huisentruit’s disappearance outside of her workplace, KIMT-TV, July 3, 1995. (Steve Kagan/Getty Images)

“We haven’t put this down. We haven’t stopped working. We have not stopped pursuing leads and information,” Brinkley told FOX 9 at the time.

In 2024, officers searched a property in Winsted, Minnesota, following a tip, though no new evidence was found. Earlier this year, part of a 2017 search warrant was also unsealed.

“We’re still hopeful the case will be solved and justice served — no matter how long it takes,” Brinkley said.

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Huisentruit’s family continues to hold out hope for closure.

“The pain and anguish felt by us and all who loved Jodi are immeasurable,” her family wrote in a statement on the Jodi’s Hope Facebook page. “True peace will only come when Jodi is found and justice is served. We still choose to hope that one day soon it will happen.”

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A $50,000 reward remains in place for information leading to answers in Huisentruit’s disappearance. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Mason City Police Department or the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

Fox News Digital’s Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this report.

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Kimber Mills, 18, was shot early Sunday in Pinson, Alabama, in a heavily wooded area referred to as The Pit, according to AL.com. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that the suspect, 27-year-old Steven Tyler Whitehead, showed up at around 12:24 a.m. and fired his gun several times after a verbal and physical fight. WVTM reported that the shooting happened at a bonfire.

Whitehead was charged with three counts of attempted murder and is being held on a $180,000 bond.

Ashley Mills, the victim’s sister, told AL.com that no one knew Whitehead, adding that he tried talking to one of Kimber’s friends. Ashley said that the girl then told her boyfriend, causing a fight that ended with shots being fired.

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Kimber Mills, 18, was planning to attend the University of Alabama in 2026. (Rylie Cirbo)

“Kimber was caught in the crossfire,” Ashley Mills said.

Kimber Mills was a senior at Cleveland High School, where she was a cheerleader and also ran track. Kimber Mills’ sister said she died on Wednesday night.

“Our sweet baby sister went to be with the Lord at 7:08 p.m. last night! She has had the biggest gathering for honor walk the doc has ever seen! She was and is so loved by so many. We will miss you Kimber! Everyone is free to share this post anywhere they feel necessary!” Ashley Mills wrote on Facebook.

According to the report, Kimber Mills was planning to attend the University of Alabama in 2026 with hopes of becoming a nurse.

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Tyler Whitehead was arrested in relation to the shooting. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office)

Ashley Mills said her sister’s injuries were too severe, adding an honor walk was held on Tuesday afternoon.

“She has too much trauma to her brain,” Ashley Mills said. “She is breathing on her own with an assisted breathing machine… We do have her on a DNR because we don’t want to hurt her anymore trying to bring her back. We’ve already got it set up for her to be an organ donor because that’s what she wanted.”

“She had a little spunk to her step,” Ashley Mills said.

MISSISSIPPI HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME SHOOTING: 4 SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER 6 DEAD, 20 INJURED

Kimber Mills, 18, was a cheerleader at Cleveland High School. (Rylie Cirbo)

Trussville Police Chief Eric Rush said Kimber Mills was shot in the head and leg and was taken to UAB Hospital in Birmingham.

Three other people were also injured in the shooting.

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Rylie Cirbo, who knew Kimber Mills, told Fox News Digital: “I’d much rather her be known for her sunshine personality and big smile rather than the tragedy.”

“I’m thankful for all the joy she’s brought my other friends,” she said. “She seemed like a very bright light in so many lives.”

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Dennis “D.J.” Thornlow was killed on July 2 as he was riding his motorcycle in Anacortes, Washington. Detectives said 49-year-old Josue Flores “intentionally” ran over Thornlow and dragged him with his car for more than 50 yards across a parking lot, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Flores was charged with felony hit-and-run, vehicular homicide and second-degree murder.

Authorities claim Flores was following Thornlow “too closely” when the motorcyclist “swerved” into a parking lot, falling off as a result. Flores then “intentionally” ran over Thornlow with his car and dragged his body for 62 yards, the probable cause affidavit states.

When Thornlow’s body came to a resting place after falling off the motorcycle, the court document details that Flores then “quickly” turned right into the parking lot and angled his car directly toward Thornlow, running over his head and leg. Surveillance video reviewed by investigators allegedly shows Flores’ car turn sharply toward Thornlow after he crashed the motorcycle.

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Dennis “D.J.” Thornlow with his partner, Jordan Weeks. (Jordan Weeks)

When questioned by police, Flores said it was a “rare occurrence” for him to leave his apartment because his neighbors were “constantly harassing him,” but needed to cash his social security check. Flores claimed Thornlow “tried to hit me” and became violent after their first interaction at an intersection. However, Flores’ claim of leaving the house was contradicted by his own mother, who allegedly told police he had already cashed the check.

Flores also claimed Thornlow was “yelling racial slurs” at him and making death threats, adding the motorcyclist was wearing a “Nazi-type helmet.” When asked by police why Thornlow would act so violent, Flores said he presumed it was because he’s Hispanic and had a run-down car, according to the court document, adding that he claimed Thornlow kept following his car too closely. Police found no evidence corroborating Flores’ claims about Thornlow.

After leaving the parking lot, Flores allegedly told authorities his car began shaking and he thought he was out of gas, so he pulled over to “figure out how to get to the Anacortes Police Department to ‘own it.’” When police asked what he meant by wanting to “own it,” Flores responded: “All I know is that he crashed. He hit the curb of the sidewalk,” adding that he had “hit a tree or something.”

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Flores never admitted to running over Thornlow or dragging his body during his interview with police, according to the affidavit. Two witnesses told police it appeared that Flores’ sedan “was chasing the motorcycle,” the documents state.

Judge Thomas Verge set bail at $50,000 during an Aug. 19 hearing on the second-degree murder charge despite a higher request from prosecutors, records show.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Fox News Digital the fact a judge would set bail for second-degree murder at $50,000 is “shocking.”

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Dennis “D.J.” Thornlow smiles with his partner, Jordan Weeks. (Jordan Weeks)

“It really shocks the conscience,” Rahmani said of the judge’s bail decision, adding he’s never seen anything like this in his career.

“This is extraordinarily low for any type of bail and certainly, in a case like this, there should be no bail at all,” he said. “So the fact that the victim’s family and the public, they’re outraged, I think they’re justified. This is someone that should be spending the rest of his life in prison, and instead, he’s out a free man.”

Records reviewed by Fox News Digital also show Flores previously served time in prison after being found guilty. In 1996, Flores was found guilty of fourth-degree assault and was sentenced to one year in jail, with 335 days of that sentence suspended. Charging documents say Flores shot a BB gun at someone riding a bike.

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Dennis “D.J.” Thornlow was allegedly run over by Josue Flores. (Jordan Weeks)

In March 2022, he was charged with assaulting a health care worker. A probable cause affidavit alleges that Flores punched a health care worker in the head “4 or 5 times” while he was trying to administer medicine.

According to the affidavit, Flores admitted to hitting the individual in the head because “[the worker] makes me nervous.” That case was dismissed, documents show.

A neighbor told detectives in summer 2025 that one time, when talking with Flores about a family member in jail, he said: “if someone f—– with me, they wouldn’t live to tell about it.” Other neighbors at his old apartment complex told detectives that Flores would “often speak about his past gang involvement with SUR13,” the court document shows.

Jordan Weeks, Thornlow’s partner, told Fox News Digital she felt “hopeless” when she heard Verge rule that Flores’ bail was only set at $50,000.

“I was shocked. I didn’t understand. I thought, did I hear him wrong?” Weeks said. “I think I was trying to have faith and I still do have faith, but that was a big crack.”

Weeks said that she’s known Thornlow for six years, adding that he has always treated people with respect and said Flores’ accusations don’t add up.

“He was friends with everybody. You know, it doesn’t matter what you looked like or what background you had or, you know, if you, it didn’t matter the type of person you were. He always met you with kindness and respect. And it just doesn’t sound, it sounds unfounded to me. It doesn’t sound like the DJ that I know. And I know him very well,” Weeks said of Flores’ accusations.

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Dennis “D.J.” Thornlow was allegedly killed by Josue Flores. (Jordan Weeks)

She said that Thornlow had a 13-year-old daughter whom he had a “very beautiful relationship” with.

“He loved me enough to see that I was going through something, working towards my career and having a very stressful year. So he tried to make sure that in other areas he could support me,” Weeks said. “I could tell even before I met his daughter, how much he loved and cared about her. Being a father is one of the most important things to him.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Flores’ attorney and a representative of Verge for comment.

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