Lamark Stineson, a 24-year-old Black male from Montgomery, was fatally shot on January 17, 2016, in a burst of weekend violence that left the city reeling. Police were called about 8:40 p.m. to the 1100 block of St. James Street on reports of a person shot, but by the time officers and fire medics arrived, he had already been rushed to a hospital in a private vehicle. He was later pronounced dead from his injuries, one of two homicides reported in Montgomery that day.
Online memorial and obituary records place his death on that same Sunday and identify Montgomery as his home, while funeral arrangements later listed services at Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church with burial to follow at Lucas Cemetery.
What emerges from the surviving online reports is a brief, stark outline of a young man’s final night rather than a fully told public case file. The shooting happened on St. James Street, and the emergency response came only after the gunfire had already done its damage. There is no detailed public narrative in the accessible reporting about what led up to the shooting, who was with him, or what exactly unfolded in those moments before he was taken to the hospital. The public record that remains easy to access online is largely limited to the fact of the shooting, the location, the time frame, and the confirmation that he died that night in Montgomery.
As for the investigation, the accessible online sources reviewed do not identify an arrest, a named suspect, formal charges, a trial, or a conviction connected to Lamark Stineson’s killing. No publicly available source located in this search set out a confirmed suspect description or announced that anyone had been taken into custody for his death. In that sense, the case remains publicly thin: a homicide recorded in local reporting and memorial listings, but without the later online trail that usually follows when police announce an arrest or prosecutors bring a case to court.
The small amount of reporting that survives online leaves his death feeling unfinished in the public record. Beyond the police summary and the funeral notices, there is little to tell the rest of the story of who he was or why he was killed. What is clear is that on a January night in Montgomery, Lamark Stineson was shot, taken from the scene by private vehicle before first responders arrived, and gone before the month was over his family was preparing to bury him.
