On April 21, 2022, at approximately 8:10 p.m., 30-year-old Javail Lamar Hodges was fatally shot in the 2400 block of Berkley Avenue in Bessemer, Alabama. According to reports, Hodges was standing outside a vehicle, conversing with someone inside, when he was shot multiple times. The vehicle then fled the scene. Hodges was transported to UAB Medical West Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Hodges' death marked Bessemer's third homicide of 2022. The Bessemer Police Department i
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