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14 years in prison. The killing of Greg Gunn occurred on the morning of February 25, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama. Gunn, a 58-year-old African-American man, [1] was shot and killed near his home after fleeing from a stop-and-frisk initiated by Aaron Cody Smith, a white police officer. Smith was charged with murder and indicted by a grand jury ...
Montgomery Riverfront brawl. A frame from a video of a White man attacking a Black dock worker at the Montgomery Riverfront in August 2023. On August 5, 2023, a large-scale altercation took place at the riverfront dock in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. The incident gained significant media attention due to its violent nature, the racial ...
0165344 [5] Website. montgomeryal.gov. Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. [9] Named for Continental Army Major General Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 200,603 at the 2020 census. [6]
Hispanic-owned businesses in Montgomery, Alabama, are being “hunted” by criminals, city officials said this week after three people were killed in a grocery store shooting that officials say ...
Shooting of Bernard Whitehurst. Bernard Whitehurst, Jr. was shot in the back and killed on December 2, 1975 by Donald Foster, a Montgomery, Alabama police officer who said he thought Whitehurst was the suspect in the robbery of a neighborhood grocery store. [1][2][3] In a subsequent cover-up, police officers planted a gun on him. [1][4] The ...
In 2021, the violent crime rate dipped by 2% from 5.2 incidents per 1,000 from 5.1 in 2020. Alabama is still 38% higher than the national average in Violent and Property crime. Aggravated assault accounts for 75% of all violent crime in Alabama, which is 10% higher than the nationwide proportion. Robberies also account for 16% of all violent ...
The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [ 2 ] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988, murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama.
Jeremiah Reeves was a 16-year-old respected senior in the segregated Booker T. Washington High School, a talented jazz drummer in a band. He was also working as a grocery delivery boy in Montgomery, Alabama when he was indicted in 1952 for the rape of a white woman. [1][2] He was indicted, then quickly convicted at a two-day trial by an all ...