Crime

Here’s a list of 2020 Russell County homicides, according to the coroner

Here is a list of Russell County, Alabama homicides for the year 2020.

1) Jan. 6: Tyrese Nelson, 20.

Nelson was shot multiple times in what authorities reported to be an exchange of gunfire reported about 8:20 p.m. at a Riverwalk parking lot near First Avenue and 19th Street. He died later at Piedmont Columbus Regional, where a second person wounded in the shooting was hospitalized. Neighbors who live near the five-space Riverwalk parking lot complained of problems with car break-ins and of hearing gunfire in the area.

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Tim Chitwood
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.
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