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This is a '''List of homicides in 2011''', including homicide cases reported throughout the [[Birmingham District]]. At least 65 homicides have been reported in the area for the year, as of July 13. Note that a "homicide" refers to the cause of death as determined by a medical examiner, not to the crime of murder as charged by prosecutors and determined by plea or trial.  
This is a '''List of homicides in 2011''', including homicide cases reported throughout the [[Birmingham District]]. At least 68 homicides have been reported in the area for the year, as of July 15. Note that a "homicide" refers to the cause of death as determined by a medical examiner, not to the crime of murder as charged by prosecutors and determined by plea or trial.  


==[[Blount County]]==
==[[Blount County]]==
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==[[Jefferson County]]==
==[[Jefferson County]]==
54 as of July 13
55 as of July 15


===[[Adamsville]]===
===[[Adamsville]]===
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===[[Birmingham]]===
===[[Birmingham]]===
36 as of July 13: See [[List of Birmingham homicides in 2011]] for details.
37 as of July 15: See [[List of Birmingham homicides in 2011]] for details.


===[[Center Point]]===
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# [[May 10]]: Denise Harris Taylor, 33, was beaten and stabbed to death at her home in [[Maylene]]. Her estranged husband, Derrick Dewayne Taylor, was found with her, apparently unconscious. He was later charged with murder. ([http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/05/maylene_man_charged_with_murde.html report])
# [[May 10]]: Denise Harris Taylor, 33, was beaten and stabbed to death at her home in [[Maylene]]. Her estranged husband, Derrick Dewayne Taylor, was found with her, apparently unconscious. He was later charged with murder. ([http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/05/maylene_man_charged_with_murde.html report])
# [[June 4]]: Wendy Marie Thompson was found strangled to death at her home on [[Milstead Road]] in [[Calera]]. Her ex-boyfriend, Terry L. Griggs of Thompson Station, Tennessee was arrested in Orange Beach and charged with capital murder. ([http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/06/tennessee_man_accused_of_killi.html report])
# [[June 4]]: Wendy Marie Thompson was found strangled to death at her home on [[Milstead Road]] in [[Calera]]. Her ex-boyfriend, Terry L. Griggs of Thompson Station, Tennessee was arrested in Orange Beach and charged with capital murder. ([http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/06/tennessee_man_accused_of_killi.html report])
# [[July 15]]: An infant and her mother were stabbed to death in room 11 of the [[Shelby Motor Lodge]] off [[U. S. Highway 31]]. A male suspect was taken into custody, but has not yet been charged. ([http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/07/two_dead_in_stabbing_incident.html report])
# July 15: A mother and her infant child were stabbed to death in room 11 of the [[Shelby Motor Lodge]] off [[U. S. Highway 31]]. A male suspect was taken into custody, but has not yet been charged. ([http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/07/two_dead_in_stabbing_incident.html report])


==[[St Clair County]]==
==[[St Clair County]]==

Revision as of 14:03, 15 July 2011

This is a List of homicides in 2011, including homicide cases reported throughout the Birmingham District. At least 68 homicides have been reported in the area for the year, as of July 15. Note that a "homicide" refers to the cause of death as determined by a medical examiner, not to the crime of murder as charged by prosecutors and determined by plea or trial.

Blount County

  1. June 29: Edward Tidmore, 66, was shot to death at his home in an incident related to a dispute over a car sale. His daughter was injured in the shooting. Willard Shaw appeared soon afterward at an auto parts store and said that he had just shot someone. He was arrested and charged with murder and assault. (report)

Calhoun County

  1. February 9: John A. Payne was found dead during a standoff between his nephew, Jonathan Singleton, and U. S. Marshals at a house on Gate 5 Road, about a mile off U.S. Highway 431 in Alexandria. The Marshals were attempting to serve a warrant for child abuse, burglary, theft by deception, and possession of a forged instrument. During the four-hour standoff, they were joined by a SWAT team from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Department and an Etowah County Joint Special Operations Group including Gadsden Police officers. Payne's body was found in a mobile home near the house. The trailer had been rigged with booby-traps and incendiary devices rigged to motion sensors. Singleton shot and killed himself and set off another firebomb in the home after officers launched tear gas grenades inside. (report)
  2. March 20: Marcus Marks, 28, was killed in a drive-by shooting at his apartment, apparently stemming from a domestic dispute. No arrest (report)

Chilton County

  1. June 3: An 11-year-old boy died at Children's Hospital in Birmingham after being shot at a residence on the 3000 block of Chilton County Road 69 near Clanton. Another boy was also shot and wounded. His mother, Ann Campbell, was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder. (report)

Etowah County

  1. July: Edward Robert Jackson, Jr, a paper carrier for the Gadsden Times, was shot multiple times following a verbal argument on the loading dock outside the newspaper plant. Ethel Lee Brewster was arrested and charged with murder. (report)

Jefferson County

55 as of July 15

Adamsville

  1. March 1: Shellane Green, 44, was found dead inside her home on Sunset Boulevard. Her death is being investigated as a homicide. Her ex-husband, Willie H. Forrest Jr, was arrested and charged with capital murder. (report)

Bessemer

  1. March 3: Luman Jones, 18, was found shot to death on the 2500 block of Carolina Terrace near his home. Ronnie Black and Michael Black have been charged, but remain at large. (report)
  2. March 9: David M. Cupps, 53, was found dead outside the Comfort Inn at 5051 Academy Lane in Bessemer. Cupps, of Sunbury, Ohio, was visiting Vicksburg, Mississippi on business when he was apparently abducted and killed. His disappearance was reported on March 8 when he missed his flight home. Two Louisiana prison escapees, Ricky Wedgeworth, 36, and Darian "Drake" Pierce, 33, were found driving his rented Buick Enclave on I-40 in Jackson, Tennessee that night. They escaped on foot, but were recaptured on March 14. (report)
  3. March 13: Vetonio Eirby, 23, died from gunshot wounds at UAB West. He was gunned down on the 900 block of 33rd Street in mid-day. Fredrick Williams was arrested and charged with murder. (report)
  4. April 5: James Leon Lewis, 45, was shot and killed outside a home at 615 6th Avenue North. David James Manning, Jr, identified by witnesses as the shooter, surrendered at Bessemer Police Department headquarters and was charged with murder. (report)
  5. June 11: Willie E. Paterson, 32, was shot to death on the 2400 block of Berkley Avenue. Nicholas Wynn was arrested and charged with the murder. (report)

Birmingham

37 as of July 15: See List of Birmingham homicides in 2011 for details.

Center Point

  1. January 20: Monzerrat Perez, 6 months, died at Children's Hospital in Birmingham. She was delivered by emergency caesarean on July 25, 2010, the day after her family was rear-ended by a speeding vehicle on Center Point Parkway. Her father died instantly and her mother died the next day following surgery. Joseph Alexander Goolsby, the driver of the speeding car, had been drinking. He was arrested and charged with two counts of murder caused by operating a vehicle with extreme indifference to human life. Monzerrat survived, but has had medical complications since birth. A third murder count is expected to be filed following her death. (report)
  2. May 6: Reginald Charles Davis, 20, was shot to death on the 1900 block of East Bend Circle after a confrontation. Derrick Allen was arrested and charged with murder. (report)

Fairfield

  1. May 1: Darren Stephens, 34, was shot during a fight with another man at 1008 Hillandale Drive. No arrest. (report)

Hoover

  1. February 3: Kevin Sullivan, 23, died in a single-car collision on I-459 North between Parkwood Road and Lake Cyrus. The driver, Nicholas Phillip Andrew Hart, lost control of the vehicle while changing lanes and ran off an embankment, striking a tree. A second passenger was also injured. Because he was inebriated, Hart was charged with criminally negligent homicide in Sullivan's death. (report)

Hueytown

  1. January 9: Andrea D. Tucker, 43 was shot to death at her home at 410 Clio Street. Her fiance, James Williams III, was arrested and charged with murder. (report)

Leeds

  1. July 10: Thomas Roy Hill Hopkins, 22, was killed and two others injured in a shooting at the Cedar Grove Apartments at 8100 Douglas Avenue. Investigators determined that Hopkins was attempting to rob a resident of the complex and exchanged fire with two people who heard the commotion and came outside. No charges will be filed. (report)

Mulga

  1. March 5: Jerry Crawford, 58, was one of two men found shot to death on the 300 block of 1st Avenue. Lajonas Deshane Powell and Harold Brownlee Jr are alleged to have abducted the men from Crawford's home in Fairmont to rob them. They were charged with capital murder. (report)
  2. March 5: Willie James Turner, 35, was the second of two men found shot to death on the 300 block of 1st Avenue. Lajonas Deshane Powell and Harold Brownlee Jr are alleged to have abducted the men from Crawford's home in Fairmont to rob them. They were charged with capital murder. (report)

Unincorporated Jefferson County

  1. January 5: Michael Lee Terry, 23, was found shot to death on the 4300 block of Indian Valley Road in the Pawnee Heights community. His 2007 Lexus was found hours later on Cherry Avenue in Forestdale. No arrest. (report)
  2. February 24: Jakesha Wills, 26, was shot to death in a murder-suicide on the 1700 block of Annendale Drive off Brewster Road just north of Birmingham, and west of Trussville. Hugh Wills, 36, was in the process of divorcing her. He shot his wife in the driveway of their home, then killed himself. The couple's 4-year-old son was playing in the yard and was not injured. (report)
  3. March 13: Jennifer Whitworth, 30, was the apparent victim of a murder-suicide on the 2800 block of Arrowhead Drive Northeast in the Arrowhead subdivision north of Gardendale. Her estranged husband, Joshua Whitworth, 33, was found dead nearby. Numerous marijuana plants were removed from the house. (report)
  4. June 30: Albert Neal Watson. 79, was found shot to death in his home on the 2500 block of Betty Hill Road in Adger. A suspect was taken into custody, but no charges have been filed. (report)

Lee County

  1. April 6: An unnamed person was killed and three others injured after a man opened fire on a minivan in a parking lot at Southern Union State Community College in Opelika. Thomas F. May III turned himself in to authorities later the same day and was charged with capital murder and attempted murder. (report)

Shelby County

  1. January 13: John Smith IV, 23, was accidentally shot to death at Anthony's Jewelry & Pawn at 4673 U. S. Highway 280. No charges are expected. (report)
  2. May 10: Denise Harris Taylor, 33, was beaten and stabbed to death at her home in Maylene. Her estranged husband, Derrick Dewayne Taylor, was found with her, apparently unconscious. He was later charged with murder. (report)
  3. June 4: Wendy Marie Thompson was found strangled to death at her home on Milstead Road in Calera. Her ex-boyfriend, Terry L. Griggs of Thompson Station, Tennessee was arrested in Orange Beach and charged with capital murder. (report)
  4. July 15: An infant and her mother were stabbed to death in room 11 of the Shelby Motor Lodge off U. S. Highway 31. A male suspect was taken into custody, but has not yet been charged. (report)
  5. July 15: A mother and her infant child were stabbed to death in room 11 of the Shelby Motor Lodge off U. S. Highway 31. A male suspect was taken into custody, but has not yet been charged. (report)

St Clair County

  1. March 23: An Ashville couple was involved in an apparent murder-suicide on U. S. Highway 231 near Ashville High School. (report)

Tuscaloosa County

  1. April 5: The body of a woman found in a burning house at 611 34th Avenue East in Tuscaloosa was discovered by investigators to have been the victim of homicide before the fire was set. No arrest. (report)

Walker County

  1. July 13: Gregory Johnson, 26, died at Walker Baptist Medical Center after being shot in a gunfight in Jasper. Another man was injured. (report)
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