‘He kept loving and helping’: Odenville man’s life, marked by tragedy and kindness, ends in violence

Al.com ^ | 05/29/21 | Carol Robinson

[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.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Carry a gun at all times and be prepared to use it.

[BudgieRamone]

We had a veteran shot to death in his driveway not awful far from where I live in Alabama. Nice neighborhood stones throw from Bessemer, AL. Caught three “yoots” responsible. not one was convicted on the murder charge.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

He was taken into custody not long after Shaw was killed. Court records show Grimmett pleaded guilty in 2017 to shooting another man with a shotgun. He received a 10-year suspended sentence.”
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In any truly civilized country Shaw would be alive today because Grimmett would have been hanged in 2017.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

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.
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Preferably friends who also oppose the death penalty!

[fortes fortuna juvat]

You want to avoid needless deaths of innocent people? Use the death penalty a lot more frequently.
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And not only more frequently but much more rapidly, like within two weeks of apprehension of the perp following a verdict of guilty. No exceptions and no appeals.

[Albion Wilde]

Here are the FBI’s 2018 homicide figures:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls

[Albion Wilde]

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

Until judges start being penalized for these horrendous decisions, not just excusing serial murderer candidates with a stern warning but also giving unsupervised custody of children to demonstrably irrational or violent parents of either gender who go on to kill the kids, this kind of liberal judicial overdrive will continue until all decent people are extinguished.

[Albion Wilde]

in about 90% of the crime stories I read... Repeat felons previously convicted of vicious/violent crimes and now running the streets

I'm often horrified by the murders of women on the crime shows Dateline or 48 Hours -- I'd say the vast majority of them are presented for the first half hour as sweet little daughters and friends, but turn out to have been women who took feminism seriously and went out drinking, wore seductive clothes, went home with a guy she met in a bar, lived with someone without marriage, got pregnant before marriage and lived with a disgruntled baby daddy, got involved in prostitution or online self-display or sexting, married someone she hardly knew or met online after a divorce, or dated outside her race or social group. Good little cultural marxists.

This crime in the OP is literally sickening, including that his adopted Buddhism is no guarantee that he will join his predeceased loved ones.

[Albion Wilde]

Preferably friends who also oppose the death penalty!

I'm old. Now, life really is too short to put up with idiots. So I've eliminated any of those kind of friends.

[Albion Wilde]

not only more frequently but much more rapidly, like within two weeks of apprehension of the perp following a verdict of guilty. No exceptions and no appeals.

Now that we have DNA proof, there should be no more lengthy appeals.

[Pining_4_TX]

“Wish I had the ability to put up a website that detailed black on White murders and violence.”

Colin Flaherty does a lot of that. I’m sure there are others. Try vdare.com or amren.com

[Pining_4_TX]

I agree wholeheartedly. Right now it’s open season on innocent people. The judge who gave him a suspended sentence should be forced to have him live in the judge’s home with his family. See how that goes.

[Eagles6]

I believe an acquital requires a unanimous vote, otherwise a hung jury and mistrial.