Formal charges have been filed against two accused shooters that left a Fairfield mall manager dead after he was caught in a hail of crossfire between two warring gangs.

Tony Alberigi, 59, died Thursday afternoon on the sidewalk outside the northern entrance of Western Hills Mall, where he had long worked.

His brother, Mike Alberigi, said the victim had moved to Alabama about 20 years ago. "As you can imagine, there are so many things running through my head right now and so many things I could say,'' the grieving brother posted on Facebook. "But I will only say this: He is my brother. I loved him, and I will miss him."

Those charged with capital murder in Alberigi's death are: Rashaan Cepdaio Brown, 20, and Ronald Dewayne Weaver, 24. Both are from Birmingham.

Fairfield Police Chief Nick Dyer said Brown and Weaver are two of three people in a car that opened fire on another group of men Thursday afternoon. The Jefferson County District Attorney's Office in the Bessemer Cutoff issued the warrants late Friday afternoon. The two suspects will now be transferred from the Fairfield City Jail to the Jefferson County Jail where they will be held without bond.

Charges are expected to be filed next week against the third person in the vehicle with Brown and Weaver, and additional charges are expected against all of them.

District Attorney Lynneice Washington called the death of Alberigi "heinous."

"If there are others, they will be sought out and charged as well,'' Washington said. "Every violent action calls for a legal recourse of action and I look forward to giving them exactly what they've asked for in a court of law."

The mall reopened Friday. Efforts to reach officials at mall management company Aronov Realty for comment were unsuccessful.

Dyer said it all began about 2:30 p.m. There was one group of young men outside of the mall when another group of young men exited the building. "They recognized each other and started shooting each other and the mall manager was caught in the crossfire,'' Dyer said. Those charged were in the group outside the mall when the other group exited.

Mall workers said Alberigi went to see what was going on and that's when he was gunned down. Police have not confirmed that account and said Alberigi was often known to walk the building's perimeter. "He was just an innocent victim standing outside the mall,'' the chief said.

The suspects fled the scene. Jefferson County sheriff's deputies, Birmingham police and Fairfield officers stopped the vehicle of one of the suspect groups on I-59/20 on the ramp of exit 123. Three suspects bailed from the Dodge Charger on foot.

The driver ran up the hill on the exit ramp and was quickly chased down by a sheriff's deputy. The Charger rolled back into the deputy's cruiser. Police said three high-powered weapons were found in the Charger.

Two other suspects fled into a nearby wooded area between the interstate and Birmingham Southern College, which prompted fear and a lockdown on campus. School officials sent out an alert warning students and staff that read "Shelter in place immediately. Do not go outside." A couple of other schools - Minor Elementary School and Bush Academy - were also temporarily put on lockdown as a precaution only.

The two remaining fleeing suspects split up once they hit the woods line. Jefferson County sheriff's tracking dog teams led the search for them. The Birmingham Police Department's West Precinct Task Force captured the other two suspects not far from where they abandoned their vehicle - one on a baseball field and the other at a nearby intersection.

During the massive search, another victim was discovered by Birmingham police. The male victim was found inside a vehicle on I-59/20 northbound at Arkadelphia Road. Birmingham police Sgt. Bryan Shelton said the city's gunfire detection system - Shot Spotter - first alerted them to shooting and said they also received multiple 911 calls. That victim was grazed in the head, and Shelton said he is believed to be a victim of the same groups of suspects.

Later Thursday night, Shelton said the victim is stable. He said their investigation so far confirms their initial belief that the suspects in the mall shooting are also the suspects in the shooting of the victim found on the interstate.

"We have people in our streets who don't care about anyone other than themselves. As a department, we will continue with the reduction of violent crime as our number one priority,'' Shelton said. "It's not something we can do alone, but with the citizens of Birmingham who want better, and who deserve better."

Back at Western Hills Mall, dozens of shoppers, employees, and onlookers gathered outside, stunned by the afternoon violence. The bullets struck at least four vehicles in the parking lot, shattering windows and peppering the bodies of the cars with holes. The windows on the mall's side entrance also were shot out.

A woman who works at the threading spa inside the mall described a frantic situation. She said the gunfire erupted, stopped and then started up again. "It's too much,'' she said, asking that her name not be used. "It was so scary. There were too many shots to count. This is completely unsafe."

Dyer said the gun violence is a problem countrywide, not just in Fairfield or the Birmingham metropolitan area. "I don't think it's any worse here than it is anywhere else,'' he said. "Right now, it's just a tragedy because an innocent man who has worked in this community for many, many years - since I've worked here he's been the mall manager - is dead and that's the issue I have."

Dyer, just like the two previous Fairfield police chiefs, knew Alberigi and liked him. Alberigi lived in eastern Jefferson County. He was not married and did not have any children.

"He was a good man. He treated everybody nice,'' Dyer said. "He was always walking around, standing outside talking to people. For you to keep a job that long here, he was a great man."

Dyer was obviously grieved over what happened Thursday afternoon. "It's a grave concern. Anybody could have been standing out here,'' he said. "The carelessness of people, with people standing in the way, to still shoot each other, there's nothing that could be that deep for you to have to do that."