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Charles Steele

Case from Selma, AL dated Jan 05, 2022

Victim Details

Charles Steele

Male

Black / African American

Selma

AL

2022-01-05

56

Charles

Steele

Yes

07/14/2026

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Dawn was just breaking over Selma when a call came in about someone lying in the street at the intersection of Broad Street and Third Avenue. When officers arrived around 5:30 a.m., they found Charles Steele, a 56-year-old Black man, dead with a gunshot wound to the head. In those first hours, police said they had no suspects, only the stark scene at the crossroads and the questions that followed as word spread that the city’s first homicide of the year had unfolded in the open air of a public ...
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  • DA: Selma police investigating first fatal shooting of 2022 - WSFA
  • Obituary information for Mr. Charles Alaster Steele
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    I've been following the case of Charles Steele, and the impact on the Selma community seems immense.... ...Read More
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