John Blake Burgin Sr.

On a Sunday evening in late October 2024, the quiet at a small apartment complex on Forman Street in Springville, Alabama, was shattered by the sound of gunfire. John Blake Burgin Sr., a 51-year-old white man, was shot outside or near his home at the complex and was pronounced dead at the scene around 9 p.m., according to the St. Clair County coroner and incident records documenting the shooting. Public booking records from earlier that year list Burgin as a white male, aligning with how he was ...

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