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Bernard Gregory Strother

Case from Bessemer, AL dated Sep 08, 2015

Victim Details

Bernard Gregory Strother

Male

Black / African American

Bessemer

AL

2015-09-08

48

Bernard

Gregory Strother

07/04/2026

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Bernard Gregory Strother, a 48-year-old Black man, was killed in the early hours of September 8, 2015, in Bessemer, Alabama, after gunfire erupted along Westlake Drive near Ridge Avenue. Police were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. to reports of shots being fired and arrived to find him dead at the scene from an apparent gunshot wound, the night still raw with flashing lights and the sudden quiet that follows violence.

A second man, Richard Harry Evans, had also been shot and was rushed to UA ...
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  • 2nd victim in Bessemer homicide identified
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