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Derrick Gerod Marks

Case from Irondale, AL dated Feb 25, 2020

Victim Details

Derrick Gerod Marks

Male

Black / African American

Irondale

AL

2020-02-25

25

Derrick

Gerod Marks

Substantiated

06/26/2026

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On a tragic Tuesday in February of 2020, the life of 25-year-old Derrick Gerod Marks, a Black male from Birmingham, Alabama, was abruptly cut short. The evening of February 25th found Marks at the Hunter Ridge Apartments in Irondale, where he had gone with the intention of playing video games with friends, an attempt to distract himself from the grief of losing his best friend just hours earlier.

Earlier that same day, Marks’s close friend, 21-year-old Delquan McNeily, was fatally shot ...
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