Son won’t be charged in father’s shooting death on Birmingham street, police say
No charges will be filed against a Birmingham 19-year-old in the shooting death of his father.
Birmingham police announced Wednesday night the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office ruled the killing of 36-year-old Willie James Powell justified.
North Precinct officers were dispatched just before 3 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a person shot in the 3800 block of Fourth Street West.
That is in the city’s Hooper City community.
When they arrived, they found Powell unresponsive in the street. He was rushed to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:56 p.m.
Officer De’Rell Freeman said father and son got into a dispute at a home several blocks away from where the victim was found.
The argument continued down the street where the fatal shots were fired near the Hooper City Convenience Store.
The son was taken into custody on the city’s east side and question. He was later released without being charged.
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