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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 switch by the woman’s boyfriend.
Beverly was pronounced dead on the scene at 9:26 p.m.
Demetrice Beverly
Demetrice Beverly, a husband, father, and assistant football coach at Parker High School, was killed in an Aug. 13, 2025, domestic shooting in Birmingham.(Contributed)
The woman was the one who called 911.
Robinson was taken into custody in the parking lot of the complex.
Friends and family are mourning Beverly’s loss.
“He was a loving, caring father brother, son, husband,” said his father, Antonio Cook. “He was just a good guy.”
Beverly was a graduate of Parker High School, where he played football and baseball.
He returned to his alma mater in 2020 as a part-time assistant football coach.
“Coach Beverly (Meat) gave his all to the Thundering Herd on the field and in our community,” Parker High Athletics posted on Facebook. “He was a mentor, husband, father, and friend whose impact will live on through the countless lives he touched.”
Beverly’s death happened just one week before the Stop the Violence Classic, an annual game between Parker High School and Ramsay High School that’s goal is building safer communities.
Parker head football Coach Frank Warren and Beverly met when they coached together at Carver. He described his friend as a good father, husband, coach, mentor, and a good person.
“When I got my head job, he was one of the first people I called,” Warren said. “He’d give you the shirt off his back.”
“He brought energy every day,” he said. “He brought the best out of these kids.”
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23-year-old charged in deadly domestic shooting of beloved Birmingham football coach
De’Corlion Keshaun Robinson is charged with murder in the slaying of Demetrice Darnell Beverly.
