Marlin Monroe Jones, 55, a White male from Anniston, was fatally shot just after midnight on June 26, 2014, after a night that turned violent at a house in the 3500 block of West 14th Street in the Central City area. According to contemporary news and gun-violence tracking reports, an argument had broken out at the residence, and as Jones and two other people got into a vehicle to leave the yard, gunfire erupted.
Jones was struck in the back and later died from that wound at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center, leaving the case to unfold from a sudden burst of violence during what should have been an ordinary departure.
Police moved quickly in the immediate aftermath. Anniston investigators secured the house, detained several people there for questioning, and by early Thursday arrested Lonnie Spinks, 32, of Hobson City. Online reports from the time say Spinks was booked on a capital murder charge in connection with Jones’s death, and gun-violence databases likewise identified him as the named suspect in the case. The publicly accessible online material that could be independently verified consistently points to that arrest, but I did not find equally solid online reporting that clearly documents the later court outcome, such as a trial result, conviction, acquittal, or final sentence tied to this killing.
