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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Man acquitted of capital murder in Birmingham shooting - reaching for a gun that was not there

Posted: 1/31/2022 10:45:24 AM EDT

A 24-year-old man was acquitted Friday afternoon of capital murder in the 2019 slaying of the brother of an NFL football player.

A Jefferson County jury, after two days of deliberation, decided Darrius Frazier fired in self-defense when he killed 27-year-old Gjamal Antonio Rodriguez and wounded Rodriguez’s girlfriend, Dedria Johnson, more than two years ago.

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The deadly shooing happened about 7:15 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 102 Shawnee Lane on the city’s east side. According to trial testimony, Frazier and Rodriquez were dating sisters who lived at the home there.

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Rodriguez’s girlfriend, got into some kind of disagreement with Frazier and she warned Frazier that she was going to get Rodriguez involved.

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On Oct. 26, 2019, testimony showed, Rodriguez fired six shots into Frazier’s home, at which time Frazier returned fire. No one was injured in that incident.

Rodriguez reportedly vowed to shoot at Frazier every time he saw him.

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The following night, according to testimony and closing statements from the lawyers, Frazier was at his girlfriend’s Shawnee Lane home. The two shared a child.

As he was leaving the home, Rodriguez was parked out front with his girlfriend in the passenger’s seat.

Hebson, in her closing statements, said Frazier immediately went to the trunk of his car and pulled out a “big gun,” which was a rifle.

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Frazier started the altercation and that he fired 16 shots into Rodriguez’s vehicle. Rodriquez was struck eight times and later pronounced dead.

His girlfriend, Johnson, was also struck several times but survived.

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Anthony said Rodriguez was raging mad, and that Frazier only fired when he thought Rodriguez was reaching under his seat for a gun. A gun was not recovered from Rodriguez’s vehicle.

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2022/01/man-acquitted-of-capital-murder-in-birmingham-shooting-that-killed-brother-of-nfl-lineman.html

Posted: 1/31/2022 10:52:09 AM EDT

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Man, my life sure is short on excitement.

Posted: 1/31/2022 10:54:38 AM EDT

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"When keeping it real goes wrong".

Posted: 1/31/2022 10:55:33 AM EDT

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furtive movement.
feared for my life.

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:03:14 AM EDT

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Sounds like their second friendly neighborhood gunfight got serious.

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:09:56 AM EDT

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Praise the Lord and amen.

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:10:25 AM EDT

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Does he face charges for the shooting of the girlfriend?

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:13:08 AM EDT

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We did this all the time when we were kids.

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:19:41 AM EDT

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Yeah, if someone fired six shots into his home and then was waiting outside in a vehicle staring at him...I'd assume he wasn't there to swap recipes.

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:25:24 AM EDT

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yeah, what's the big deal, either a gunfight or a knife fight, sometimes a baseball bat

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:26:41 AM EDT

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Gonna guess the subjects involved have a shared habit of poor associations, with natural consequences ensuing.

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:26:45 AM EDT

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Rodriguez reportedly vowed to shoot at Frazier every time he saw him.

Who hasn’t been there?

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:44:14 AM EDT

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The mayor says we have a gun problem, not a culture issue.

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Snapchat-fight-leads-to-drive-by-shooting-at-strip-club-that-kills-uninvolved-bystander/5-2525661/

Posted: 1/31/2022 11:54:36 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/31/2022 12:07:51 PM EDT

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Biased article doesn't mention that Darius Fraiser was a white cop.

Posted: 1/31/2022 3:21:16 PM EDT

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Darius Frazier (Photo courtesy of Birmingham Police)

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2019/10/suspect-charged-in-birmingham-shooting-that-killed-brother-of-nfl-lineman.html

Posted: 1/31/2022 3:28:45 PM EDT

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Which is just how I like it.

Posted: 1/31/2022 3:36:42 PM EDT

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I can't remember how many friends I shot as I rode by on my tricycle when I was really young. Called them a poopyhead too.

Posted: 1/31/2022 4:06:25 PM EDT

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I can't remember how many friends I shot as I rode by on my tricycle when I was really young. Called them a poopyhead too.

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I can't remember how many friends I shot as I rode by on my tricycle when I was really young. Called them a poopyhead too.

the .finger caliber hand cannon is well known to be lethal in games of cowboys and indians...

Also... I once heard a person say that in china if you really hated someone you could bid them farewell saying "may you live in interesting times" .... These people sure seemd to live in interesting times.

Posted: 1/31/2022 8:07:10 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/31/2022 8:11:22 PM EDT

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Just another day in da hood.

Posted: 2/1/2022 10:22:23 AM EDT

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They were dating sisters.

That's not unreasonable that he would be at the sisters house with the other sister.

Bad shoot imo.

Posted: 2/6/2022 2:29:12 AM EDT

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That's not unreasonable that he would be at the sisters house with the other sister.

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lol.

Posted: 2/6/2022 3:26:55 AM EDT

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Dedria Johnson got her boyfriend killed….

“Rodriguez’s girlfriend, got into some kind of disagreement with Frazier and she warned Frazier that she was going to get Rodriguez involved.”

Stereotypes exist for a reason

Posted: 2/6/2022 3:40:00 AM EDT

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Looks like he forgot he didn't have a gun under his seat.
Ooops.

Posted: 2/6/2022 3:54:54 AM EDT

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LOL! That quote needs to be on a magazine cover!!!

Posted: 2/6/2022 4:23:15 AM EDT

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No one in my grammar School ever shot, stabbed, or assaulted out teacher's, we said the pledge of allegiance every day, if we got into a fight, by the next day we were still friends. We knew better to back talk our parents, and respect people. Hell, I got caught with a real bullet I found, and all that happened was the teacher took it away. I remember my teachers teaching democracy, we would vote in class on elections as a teaching tool. Now a day's there's no respect, children are indoctrinated in school, no pledge of allegiance, and they wonder why things are the way they are.

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