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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 ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: al; alabama; crime; murder; odenville
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To: Pining_4_TX

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


41 posted on 06/03/2021 4:11:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pining_4_TX

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.


42 posted on 06/03/2021 5:07:13 PM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

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.


43 posted on 06/03/2021 8:02:15 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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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.
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Preferably friends who also oppose the death penalty!


44 posted on 06/03/2021 8:08:22 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


45 posted on 06/03/2021 8:16:10 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Gay State Conservative

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


46 posted on 06/04/2021 9:00:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (God’s will is no concern of this Congress. —Jerry Nadler, 2021)
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To: skr
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.

47 posted on 06/04/2021 9:08:50 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (God’s will is no concern of this Congress. —Jerry Nadler, 2021)
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To: LibertyWoman
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.

48 posted on 06/04/2021 9:17:16 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (God’s will is no concern of this Congress. —Jerry Nadler, 2021)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
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.

49 posted on 06/04/2021 9:19:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (God’s will is no concern of this Congress. —Jerry Nadler, 2021)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
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.

50 posted on 06/04/2021 9:20:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (God’s will is no concern of this Congress. —Jerry Nadler, 2021)
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To: Eagles6

“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


51 posted on 06/04/2021 5:32:53 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

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.


52 posted on 06/04/2021 5:34:32 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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To: Gene Eric

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


53 posted on 06/07/2021 8:29:33 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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