A second man has died after a shootout at The Quest nightclub in Birmingham

A second man has died in a shooting Friday morning at The Quest nightclub on Birmingham’s Southside.

Birmingham police said they were notified Sunday by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office that the second victim had died.

Police identified him as 32-year-old Shane Gady.

Terrell Brown, Jr., 32, died at the scene Friday.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said both Birmingham men shot each other during a physical altercation.

Officers were called to the club at 416 24th Street South just before 6:30. Both men were treated by patrons and police until Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service arrived.

Brown was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:44 a.m. Gady was taken to UAB Hospital, where he remained until his death.

Investigators recovered two guns from inside the nightclub near the “fired area.”

The Quest was a popular dance club in the 1970s.

Fitzgerald said it was important to point out that there were multiple incidents of violence at The Quest.

“In less than three years at this location, I had a Birmingham police officer shot, a homicide inside the nightclub where two people were shot, an officer had to fight an individual at the club night with an emergency officer put out because that person was armed and fast forward to this morning — we have another crime where someone was killed in the club,” he said.

“We are not involved in destroying anyone’s livelihood by taking away their business. However, we are in this to bring as much light as possible when you have incidents that occur at a facility that affect the safety of our community,” he said.

“We as a city, as a government, as a community, we need to meet with the business owners and we need to give the same energy that we have given to other establishments in our city,” he said, noting the recent lawsuits against two businesses on Third Avenue West and a downtown nightclub.

“Our patrol officers said this is an address they regularly respond to calls to assist with security and to clear all kinds of disturbances,” he said.

In 2022, Michael David Lyle, 45, of Blount County, was an innocent bystander when an argument inside the club led to the shooting. Lyle was pronounced dead at the scene.

A few months before Lyle was shot, a Birmingham police officer was shot during a struggle with a gunman at the Southside club.

Gady is Birmingham’s 57th homicide since 2024. Of those, five have been ruled justifiable and are therefore not considered criminal.

There were 51 homicides on May 26, 2023, in Birmingham.

In all of Jefferson County, there were 80 homicides, including the 57 in Birmingham. At this time last year, there were 68 murders across the county.