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Irvin Starling

Case from Attalla, AL dated Feb 22, 1975

Victim Details

Irvin Starling

Male

Attalla

AL

1975-02-22

36

Irvin

Starling

Yes

07/06/2026

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Irvin C. L. Starling, a 36-year-old male patrolman with the Attalla Police Department, was working the kind of shift where nothing is supposed to stand out—headlights cutting through the dark, the steady rhythm of patrol, the small decisions that keep a town stitched together. On Saturday, February 22, 1975, that routine turned deadly during a traffic stop in Attalla, Alabama. The driver he pulled over had, according to later accounts, just beaten his wife moments earlier, and the tension that ...
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