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Robert Michael Howard

Case from Mobile, AL dated Dec 16, 2016

Victim Details

Robert Michael Howard

Male

Mobile

AL

2016-12-16

28

Robert

Michael Howard

Yes

07/02/2026

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A sense of impending danger may have hung in the air on the evening of December 16, 2016, as Robert Michael Howard, a 28-year-old man, was in Prichard, just outside of Mobile, Alabama. He was wearing a ballistic vest, a precaution that ultimately proved futile. In an incident that police later said was connected to drugs and gambling, shots rang out. When the chaos subsided, Howard lay dead from a gunshot wound, and another individual was left injured. The discovery of the protective vest on How ...
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  • Robert Howard Obituary (2016) - Mobile Register and Baldwin County
  • AL.com: 1 dead, 1 injured in Prichard shooting involving drugs, gambling: police
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