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James Farentino Madden

Case from Birmingham, AL dated May 17, 2014

Victim Details

James Farentino Madden

Male

Black / African American

Birmingham

AL

2014-05-17

41

James

Farentino Madden

07/03/2026

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James Farentino Madden, a 41-year-old Black man from Muscle Shoals, was killed by gunfire in Birmingham on May 17, 2014. The picture that emerges from the online record is stark and lonely: late that Saturday night, authorities were called to Lawson Road after someone discovered him lying in the street. He had been shot multiple times, and the case was treated as a homicide. The available reports place his death in Birmingham even though he was identified as being from Muscle Shoals, giving the ...
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