A Jefferson County judge will decide this week whether two capital murder cases for accused mass killer Damien McDaniel will be combined when the first trial takes place in January 2027.
McDaniel, 23, is charged in the slayings of 18 people and the wounding of 30 others in Birmingham in 2023 and 2024.
The suspect is described in federal court records as the primary “enforcer of violence and homicides” for a Birmingham-area drug organization…