Joshua Poole, a 36-year-old White male, died on July 26, 2017, in a killing tied to Theodore, Alabama, a death that left behind both a homicide investigation and a grieving family. Public memorial records and obituary information identify him as Joshua DeWayne Poole, and while he was publicly associated with Theodore in reports about the shooting, his family obituary remembered him as a resident of Wilmer.
The day ended not with the ordinary rhythm of home and family, but with gun violence that cut his life short and sent investigators searching for answers in the Theodore area.
Available public reporting indicates that Poole was killed by gunfire on July 26, 2017. Accounts linked to the case describe the shooting as a homicide and place it in the Theodore area, with one report indicating the violence grew out of a dispute involving a woman. The picture that emerges is of a confrontation that turned deadly, leaving Poole dead and his name added to the long record of lives lost to sudden violence along the Gulf Coast. His obituary, by contrast, preserves a quieter image of the man behind the headlines, naming the family members who mourned him, including his wife, children, mother, stepfather, and extended relatives.
As for the criminal case itself, the online sources I found do not clearly document a named suspect, an arrest, a prosecution, or a conviction in Poole’s death. The public trail that remains online appears to confirm the killing and the basic circumstances around it, but it does not provide the kind of later courtroom record that would show the case reaching a definitive legal conclusion. In that sense, the story feels unfinished: a man was killed, the death was treated as a homicide, and the broad motive described publicly pointed to a personal dispute, yet the available online record does not clearly show who, if anyone, was ultimately held responsible.
