Johnnie Robinson – The Birmingham Post-Herald Article, “Shooting Still Being Probed”

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September 20, 1963 article from the Birmingham Post-Herald reporting that the fatal police shooting of 16-year-old Johnnie Robinson remained under investigation five days after his death. The article states that Birmingham Police Chief Jamie Moore had received a written report from Homicide Detectives C. L. Pierce and M. E. Gullion and recounts witness and police accounts that Robinson was shot in the back while fleeing from the vicinity of Eighth Avenue and 26th Street North.

The article further reports that Robinson was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital from gunshot wounds. Because this is a contemporary press account rather than an official investigative record, statements concerning the circumstances of the shooting and hospital identification should be understood as information reported by the newspaper rather than independently established findings of the repository.