Johnnie Robinson – Offense (Assault) Report and Injury Diagrams

Description

Five-page Birmingham Police Department investigative compilation concerning the September 15, 1963 fatal shooting of Johnnie Brown Robinson. The principal document is a City of Birmingham Police Department Offense (Assault) Report identifying Robinson as the 16-year-old victim, Jack Parker as the involved Birmingham police officer, the location as the alley near 26th Street North, and Robinson’s injury as a shotgun wound. The report records his arrival at Hillman Hospital at approximately 4:55 p.m., lists police witnesses, and identifies Martha Robinson as his mother.

The compilation also contains anatomical diagrams marking apparent shotgun-pellet injuries, including an entrance wound in the back and injuries to the left arm, together with handwritten witness information. The final page is Robinson’s Alabama certificate of death, which identifies him as Johnnie Brown Robinson, age 16, records his cause of death as a gunshot wound of the chest, and states that he was struck by shotgun pellets.