Prosecutors want probation revoked for man acquitted in Hoover veteran Mike Gilotti’s 2016 death
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
The City of Hoover on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, unveiled two new signs honoring the memory of Mike Gilotti, who was shot to death in his Lake Cyrus community on Jan. 5, 2016. In May, according to city officials, the state legislature passed a resolution and Gov. Kay Ivey signed that resolution allowing for the Alabama Highway 150 bridge to be named after Gilotti.
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A Jefferson County jury in 2018 found Ahmad Jaquan Johnson not guilty in Gilotti’s slaying.
Johnson did plead guilty to a reduced charge of reckless endangerment stemming from an incident that happened in the days before Gilotti’s shooting death on Jan. 5, 2016.
Contributors can stop by one of the LifeSouth bloodmobiles in the parking lot of the Hoover Recreation Center, located at 600 Municipal Drive between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
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Blood drive set at Hoover Rec Center to honor Mike Gilotti
Photo courtesy of Heather Gilotti.
Mike Gilotti served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, including 15 months as a tank commander in Iraq. He was killed outside his home in the Lake Cyrus community in January 2016, and prosecutors were unable to obtain a conviction against the suspects in the case.
LifeSouth Community Blood Centers is holding a blood drive in honor of the late Hoover resident Mike Gilotti at the Hoover Recreation Center on Jan. 29.
The blood drive is being held roughly five years after Gilotti was killed outside his Lake Cyrus home when he found someone breaking into his vehicle in his driveway early one morning in January 2016. He was 33 with a wife and two children.