Alvoida “Dale” Skeen, a 29-year-old male from Birmingham, Alabama, died on November 17, 2009, and by the time his family was making funeral arrangements, the city was still trying to understand what had happened in the Kingston neighborhood. The public record of his passing places him in Birmingham and anchors the date, while later summaries of Birmingham’s homicides point to a grim scene: his body was found outside a house on 46th Place North in Kingston.
In the immediate wake of his death, the details available online stay spare and solemn—more about the fact of loss than the mechanics of it. His obituary and memorial entries reflect a family preparing to say goodbye, with services held the following week and burial in Dynasty Gardens. Those notices don’t describe the violence directly, but they confirm the identity and timing and hint at the suddenness that often trails a young man’s death: a life interrupted, a community gathering, a final procession to the cemetery.
As investigators worked the case, later compiled homicide listings for Birmingham reported that the death did not remain an open mystery in the eyes of law enforcement. According to that compilation, three suspects were charged in February 2010. It names Antonio Clark as having been arrested, and it says another suspect, Cordaryl Craig, turned himself in to police. The same entry indicates there was a third suspect charged as well, though that person is not identified in the publicly accessible summary that lists the case.
Beyond those charging details, the online sources that are accessible without restricted local-press archives do not reliably fill in what happened afterward—whether the charges proceeded to trial, whether any suspect was convicted, or whether the case was resolved through plea agreements. What remains, in the fragments that are publicly visible, is the outline of a November night in 2009 when Skeen was found outside that Kingston address, followed months later by arrests and charges that suggested investigators believed they had identified who was responsible, even if the final courtroom outcome is not clearly documented in the sources available here.
