Crime & Safety
25-Year-Old Man Killed In Roebuck Shopping Center Plaza Shooting
A shooting Friday at the Roebuck Shopping Center Plaza resulted in the death of 25-year-old Lazonathan Rhodes.
BIRMINGHAM, AL — A shooting at the Roebuck Shopping Center Plaza Friday resulted i the death of a 25-year-old man. The incident occurred just before 4 p.m. at the shopping center on Parkway East.
Police say an argument in the parking lot escalated into gunfire, and both people involved in the argument were shot. Both were taken to UAB Hospital where 25-year-old Lazonathan Rhodes of Birmingham was pronounced dead. The other person is still hospitalized with injuries that are not life-threatening, according to Officer Truman Fitzgerald of the Birmingham Police Department.
Fitzgerald said a person of interest was detained at the scene.
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Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the Birmingham PD Homicide Unit at 205-254-1764.
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