Posted on 06/22/2021 6:12:53 AM PDT by marktwain
A shootout between an auto repair shop worker and a suspected robber left one of them dead Saturday morning.
Birmingham police Saturday afternoon identified the slain man as Josiah Bryant. He was 22 and lived in Birmingham.
The shooting happened at 7:45 a.m. at Hatcher’s Auto Transmission Center on Tuscaloosa Avenue.
Officer Truman Fitzgerald said a store associate was opening the shop for business when an armed man entered and tried to rob him. “They engaged in a shootout,’' Fitzgerald said.
Bryant was shot. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene. Police recovered a handgun from near the deceased male.
The store associate remained on the scene and is fully cooperating with police, Fitzgerald said.
Court records indicate Bryant pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery in 2018, and received a 20-year sentence with four years to serve.
He was brought up on probation revocation charges earlier this year. In April, a judge did not revoke his probation but extended it through 2024.
The deadly shooting is Birmingham’s 58th homicide in 2021. Of those, four have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 105 homicides, including the 58 in Birmingham.
The store associate, however, did permanently revoke his probation.
What is he doing out?
I guess the "4 years to serve" meant he only had to do 4 of the 20?
Then what's the point of sentencing him to 20?
Doesn't matter now.
“””Court records indicate Bryant pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery in 2018, and received a 20-year sentence with four years to serve.”””
‘Catch and release’ is a pandemic throughout the USA.
Even better is that he was out in 3 years.
“Josiah” sounds Amish.
Live like a thug, die like a thug...
I see they are still sane there. King Cuomo banned mugshots from newspapers here in the People’s Republic of NY
It's unfair to society and the victims.
When the justice system fails to protect the public, private citizens are left to do the job. The auto associate should get a bounty from justice system funds for doing their job.
Cue Baby Mama: “Why dat racist mf have to shoots my baby? He coulda just gibbs my boy the money. He was a good boy, tryin’ turn his life ‘round. He dindu nuffins...
He won’t be doing that again.
He was brought up on probation revocation charges earlier this year. In April, a judge did not revoke his probation but extended it through 2024
The "Justice System" needs customers. How else are you going to keep all those probation officers employed?
It looks like Bryant found a way out of the system.
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