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Zachary Scott Alston

Case from Mobile, AL dated May 11, 2014

Victim Details

Zachary Scott Alston

Male

Black / African American

Mobile

AL

2014-05-11

20

Zachary

Scott Alston

Yes

07/09/2026

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In the late afternoon of May 11, 2014, a violent encounter at the intersection of Pointer and Setter Roads in Mobile, Alabama, ended the life of 20-year-old Zachary Scott Alston. Mobile Police responded to a report of a person shot in a vehicle at approximately 3:50 p.m. and discovered Alston with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation into the death of the young man quickly pointed to a suspect. Arlando Raeshun Nichols, who was 21 at the ...
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  • http://www.wkrg.com/story/25495820/mobile-police-make-arrest-in-murder-case
  • Man suspected in Theodore weekend shooting death caught in Atlanta
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