BIRMINGHAM, Ala (WIAT) – 16-year old Artavious Underwood is one of three teens charged with the shocking execution style murders. He was the second person police charged in the crime.16-year old Reginald Mims was just arrested on Thursday. They each face five counts of capital murder. Stoves is scheduled to head to court on Friday: for the first time since the murders were discovered early Sunday morning. According to Underwood's mother, Stoves and her son, were close friends.“They were friends, yeah but I couldn't have never thought them two could do something like that, it's a shock to the family because I raised Artavius up the right way,” Ramona Underwood tells us.
CBS42 found Artavius's Facebook picture, showing the suspect under the captioned words "View Mob".
After Googling and searching YouTube for the phrase "View Mob" we uncovered several videos...news of these videos was shocking to Underwood's mother.
“A lot of things that's coming up, baby, I don't know nothing about it because when they came in my presence, they respect me, they did what I told them to do. All this other stuff I'm hearing, I never seen that side of them so I don't know what could have occurred that night,” says Underwood.
With shocking and provocative images found on the Internet, CBS42 sat down with City Councilor Steven Hoyt as he watched the videos for the first time.
“And it says to me that there is a problem, but the city's got to put its attention to it and we have to solve these issues, we can't let this continue,” Hoyt says. We contacted the Birmingham Police Department about the videos and pictures, but they would not comment on the ongoing investigation. Police are still asking anyone with additional information to call Crime Stoppers at 254-7777.
