Fugitive in 2020 fatal beating, shooting in Alabama arrested outside Ohio hospital

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Published: Jan. 24, 2025, 5:02 p.m.

An Alabama man wanted in a 2020 murder was captured Friday in the parking lot of an Ohio hospital.

Frank Cortez McQueen, 45, of Evergreen, was taken into custody near Grady Memorial Hospital, according to NBC4 WCMH-TV.

He was booked into the Delaware County Jail at 12:19 p.m. and remains held pending extradition to Covington County, jail records show.

McQueen is one of five people charged in the Nov. 16, 2020, death of 26-year-old Micah Spencer “Mike” Coon.

Coon was found beaten and shot to death about 9:30 p.m. that Monday inside a George Street home. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Brittany Head, 26, was convicted in August of a reduced charge of felony murder. She was sentenced to life in prison.

Dontavious Powell, 26, pleaded guilty in 2023 to felony murder. He was sentenced to nine years in prison with three to serve.

Tyquise Jamal Jenkins, 26, and Courtney Lee Porter, 33, are set to go to trial next week.

McQueen, who was initially arrested in 2021, also was set to go to trial Monday. It wasn’t immediately clear how long had been in Ohio.

The group of suspects, according to authorities, went to Coon’s home after Coon and Jenkins got into an altercation outside and Andalusia package store. Jenkins and Head were married.

After the fight, they reportedly recruited Powell, Porter and McQueen to go to Coon’s home in retaliation.

According to published reports, Coon’s fiancé and their three children hid in a back bedroom during the murder while Coon called 911.

In Coon’s graphic 911 phone call played during Head’s trial, the Andalusa Star reported, listeners in the courtroom heard him try to stop the home invasion by telling the defendants, “My kids are in here.”

The now-retired 911 operator who took the call testified that soon after she heard Micah talking of his children, she heard what she believed to be a gunshot and Micah screaming in pain.

Authorities said when officers arrived, they found Coon’s front teeth had been knocked out, that he had a black eye and that he had been shot by a rifle in the stomach. Marshals said Coon was also shot in the head.

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