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‘He kept loving and helping’: Odenville man’s life, marked by tragedy and kindness, ends in violence
Al.com ^ | 05/29/21 | Carol Robinson

Posted on 06/03/2021 11:46:44 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX

Earlier this week, at the age of 67, he became a homicide victim, gunned down behind his St. Clair County home. It appears two men tried to steal his beloved Chevy Camaro, affectionately named “Babe.”

“Brian was a pacifist. He didn’t believe in violence, so this is hard to comprehend,’' said his sister, Carole Tatum. “He was my baby brother. It’s hard.”

The shooting happened at Shaw’s Ladonna Drive home in Odenville.

According to friends and family, Shaw was in the three-bay, industrial-style garage behind his home working on one of his cars. He loved to buy and sell cars, take them apart and rebuild them. Most recently he had bought Babe, the 2002 convertible Camaro that had logged only 16,000 miles.

It was shortly before 8 p.m. when his neighbors heard what sounded like gunfire.

“They heard, ‘pop pop,’ and his wife said, ‘that sounded like gunfire,’’' Tatum said. “He came out of his house and saw Brian laying there and told his wife to call 911. He grabbed his shotgun and went back outside.”

One suspect was running down the street. The second had driven off as soon as the neighbor appeared brandishing a long gun.

Shaw was pronounced dead at his home within 30 minutes of the shooting.

(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...


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KEYWORDS: al; alabama; crime; murder; odenville
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To: Gay State Conservative
More specifically it shows that blacks killing whites is very,very unusual...

Not anymore. This incident is the third one I've read today in which an innocent person was killed or kidnapped by a "minority." In one incident the killer was an illegal alien and the victim was a Latino infant. In the other two, the criminals were black and the victims were white. All three instances occurred in Dem-run cities. The perpetrators all had prior arrests and were let back out on the street by Dem judges and the beyond-lenient system in those localities.

21 posted on 06/03/2021 12:16:56 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...)
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To: Eagles6

That is one of the most depressing posts ever-——we are living in a world gone mad.

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22 posted on 06/03/2021 12:19:34 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

>> How can somebody kill someone in 2017 and be out on the streets?

Rats?


23 posted on 06/03/2021 12:20:01 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Wish I had the ability to put up a website that detailed black on White murders and violence.

Just post news stories.

Commentary not needed.

Of course, it would be attacked as racist.

As of 2019 a White person was murdered by a black in the US every 12 hours.

It's probably much worse than that but that's using FBI data, which they admit is incomplete.

24 posted on 06/03/2021 12:20:43 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
I’d love to see the day when every adult who opposes the death penalty will have someone who’s important to them brutally,wantonly,murdered.

That's going a bit far, IMO. However, I would not mind seeing something like that happen to those jurors who acquitted the black man who murdered a man to steal his vehicle. He even admitted to doing it. It would strike me as fairly hilarious if each one of them got killed by the dude in the same manner.

25 posted on 06/03/2021 12:21:23 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Same with rape. I recall the 2009 FBI crime stats report ( before Holder changed it). There were ZERO white on black rapes. It was a. national report!


26 posted on 06/03/2021 12:21:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Pining_4_TX

This is one of the toughest stories I have read in quite a while.........Just damn!


27 posted on 06/03/2021 12:22:16 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Eagles6

>> a jury rendered a not guilty verdict on all counts.

Do you know if the charges required a unanimous vote?


28 posted on 06/03/2021 12:23:12 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

As if 10 years wasn’t already too light, the judge suspended it into a meaningless sentence and another go at murdering someone else.


29 posted on 06/03/2021 12:30:59 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Eagles6
Wish I had the financial resources to place bounties on the heads of these monsters and offer them to the lifer prison populations......$10K or more to their families.

What do they have to lose, they're doing life already?

30 posted on 06/03/2021 12:32:42 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: PGR88

i find it hard to comprehend people exist that do not understand people and life, or the concept of the worst case scenario, self defense, having to do personally unpleasant things....


31 posted on 06/03/2021 12:36:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

it happens and they still don’t change their minds

they are the same people who have self hatred because of white guilt


32 posted on 06/03/2021 12:40:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Murdering a man for something like this. Real criminal masterminds.

33 posted on 06/03/2021 12:40:39 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Pining_4_TX

RIP Brian.

Read the whole article. Seemed like a nice man. Always there for friends and family needing help. Could have been anyone of us. Touched by many tragedies in his life. Real tragedies, not victim status tragedies. Teared up reading his friends kind words about him,

” But never did I ever hear Brian protest his losses,’’ she said. “He just kept on living, one day at a time, one project at a time, and he kept loving and helping others.

“Maybe that was his secret, ya think?” Downs said. “Gratitude for what we have, not bitterness for what we have lost. Brian was a joy, and I will forever think of the twinkle in his eye as I remember him.”


34 posted on 06/03/2021 1:04:13 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: Pining_4_TX

“Brian was a pacifist. He didn’t believe in violence”

Well Brian, you died for your convictions. Violence believes in you and and there are plenty of people who appreciate your convictions.


35 posted on 06/03/2021 1:12:55 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: PGR88

I’m a pacifist... Until I’m not.


36 posted on 06/03/2021 1:13:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: PGR88

Exactly right. And who was it that said; “It you love peace, prepare for war”?


37 posted on 06/03/2021 1:28:07 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

That’s the case in about 90% of the crime stories I read. Repeat felons previously convicted of vicious/violent crimes and now running the streets either because of suspended sentences or early release. Thank you U.S. Government.


38 posted on 06/03/2021 1:48:14 PM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: martin_fierro

Yeah they murdered a decent civilized person for his car. Then they end up caught and without benefit of the stolen car. Utter trash criminal morons of the lowest scum. Couldn’t work hard and legally pay for their own nice car?


39 posted on 06/03/2021 2:05:33 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: Pining_4_TX

How? The ComDem’s. They use these vermin to create chaos.


40 posted on 06/03/2021 2:43:18 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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