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The man accused of gunning down an Alabama high school cheerleader at a bonfire party and shooting three others while one victim tried to shield her has been released from jail on bond.
Steven Tyler Whitehead, charged with murder in the death of 18-year-old Kimber Mills and attempted murder for wounding three others, bonded out of the Jefferson County Jail Thursday after a judge set bond at $330,000. As a condition of his release, Whitehead must wear an electronic monitoring device, WBRC reported.
Mills, a senior at Cleveland High School, was shot in October 2025 during a late-night bonfire in a heavily wooded area known locally as "The Pit," near Highway 75 North and Clay-Palmerdale Road in Pinson, Alabama.
Authorities said the gathering turned violent after Whitehead arrived shortly after midnight and became involved in a verbal and physical confrontation before pulling out a gun and opening fire.
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