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Robert Lee Johnson

Case from Birmingham, AL dated Apr 17, 2021

Victim Details

Robert Lee Johnson

Male

Black / African American

Birmingham

AL

2021-04-17

64

Robert

Lee Johnson

No

07/16/2026

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Robert Lee Johnson, a 64-year-old Black man from Birmingham, died on April 17, 2021, after a grim stretch of suffering that began weeks earlier inside a relative’s home on the 1100 block of Penfield Drive in the Penfield Park area. According to the accounts available online, the fatal chain of events was not a shooting but a beating: Johnson suffered blunt-force trauma during a dispute there, lingered for about four weeks, and ultimately died while in home hospice care. What happened to him wa ...
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