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Family of slain Birmingham Water Works employee Tyrone King pleads for killer to turn self in
Updated 9:04 PM;
Today 9:04 PM
Family and friend of Tyrone King, the 29-year-old Birmingham Water Works employee who was shot and killed Friday, release balloons in his memory during a vigil Wednesday.
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Family and friends of slain Birmingham Water Works employee Tyrone King pleaded for the 29-year-old worker’s killer to turn themselves in and for any witnesses in King’s unsolved murder to come forward during a vigil Wednesday near the spot where King was gunned down last week.
“I miss my son. I love my son very much. My son didn’t mess with nobody,” said King’s mother, Myra King, during the vigil at the BBVA Compass Bank parking lot on Montclair Road near Walmart, where King’s body was found inside a Birmingham Water Works truck Friday afternoon.
From The Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM The Birmingham Police Department is investigating a deadly shooting that claimed the life of a Birmingham Water Works employee.
The shooting happened on Friday, April 9, 2021, in the parking lot of Walmart on Montclair Road.
Officers were called to the scene around 12:56 p.m. and found the Birmingham Water Works company vehicle lodged in the shrubbery at the location. They found two people inside the vehicle, both employees of Birmingham Water Works. The driver, Tyrone King, 29, of Birmingham, was unresponsive and had multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on the scene. The passenger was not hurt and has not been identified.
Fort Worth Weekly
Four candidates weigh in on their goals for swaths of Fort Worth’s East and South sides.
By Edward Brown
District 8, which includes much of Fort Worth east of I-35 and south of I-30, is one of eight districts up for grabs come May 1. The ethnically diverse district includes the East Lancaster corridor and its homeless shelters, the historically Black Polytechnic Heights neighborhood, and a couple of ethnically mixed neighborhoods in south Fort Worth. Councilmember Kelly Allen Gray has represented the district since 2012.
Gray’s self-described focus as councilmember has been to improve the quality and availability of affordable housing across the city while actively seeking ways to develop permanent supportive housing to assist in making homelessness short-term and non-recurring. Candidate Christopher Johnson is a lifelong resident of Fort Worth, entrepreneur, neighborhood association president, and community advocate. Fort Worth native Tyrone Ki