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Samuel Shelby

Case from Birmingham, AL dated Dec 20, 2010

Victim Details

Samuel Shelby

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Birmingham

AL

2010-12-20

2010-12-20

32

Samuel

Shelby

07/07/2026


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Samuel Arthur Shelby, a 32-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, died in the earliest hours of Monday, December 20, 2010, when a night that should have ended quietly turned violent in Ensley. After a call came in about shots fired around 2:30 a.m., police were sent to the 1300 block of 57th Street, where they found Shelby and another man, Julian Tarver, inside a car. Both had been shot, and both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators later described a trail that didn’t ...
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  • SAMUEL SHELBY Obituary (2010) - Birmingham
  • Double murder under investigation in Ensley - WBRC
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