DORA, Ala. (AP) Police in Alabama have identified a 27-year-old man who was shot to death during a confrontation with officers, one day after another man was killed by law enforcement in a separate shooting.
Roger Dale Gibson was wounded Saturday morning and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, Walker County Coroner Joey Vick said.
Dora police Chief Jared Hall said officers responded to a neighborhood about 6 a.m. The chief said two Dora police officers and the suspect were involved in a shooting, but he did not release any additional information about the circumstances or what led to the gunfire.
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27-year-old ID’d as man killed in confrontation with Dora police
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Walker County Coroner Joey Vick identified the slain man as Roger Dale Gibson. He was 27.
Few details have been released at this time, but Dora Police Chief Jared Hall said the incident began about 6 a.m. Saturday in the 500 block of High Street. What led to the gunfire wasn’t immediately clear, but Hall said it involved two Dora police officers and a suspect.
The suspect was injured and taken to Walker Baptist Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The two officers were also injured but are OK.
The sister of a man fatally shot by a Walker County sheriff’s deputy is devastated by the Friday-night killing of her brother and said it shouldn’t have ended the way it did.Killed in the shooting was 26-year-old Frederick Earl Height II. He would have turned 27 on March 6.