Tuscaloosa VCU Responds to Another Fatal Shooting Hours Before Year Ends, Woman Killed

Police in Tuscaloosa are responding to another fatal shooting late Tuesday night, worsening the area's most violent year in modern history hours before it ended.

Captain Marty Sellers, the co-commander of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit, told the Thread a few minutes before 11 p.m. that the VCU was on the scene of a fatal shooting off Fosters Ferry Road.

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Sellers said the shooting took place on Joyce Lewis Lane in Tuscaloosa.

An adult female is dead, Sellers said, and he called the incident a probable homicide.

The shooting follows another murder in west Tuscaloosa Monday night for which a suspect has already been arrested.

If that bears out, the killing pushes the number of homicides in Tuscaloosa city limits to 22, indisputably the highest number for which data is readily available.

The homicide rate also either ties or surpasses the all-time high for Tuscaloosa County. There is some disagreement about the data from 1975, the previous record-high year.

Reporting from the Tuscaloosa News said there were 26 homicides investigated in Tuscaloosa County in both 1975 and 2001.

Modern records from the VCU say there were 29 homicides in 1975, 19 of which occurred within the city of Tuscaloosa.

By the count of the Thread staff, Tuesday night's killing on the west side marks 22 homicides in the city this year and 29 in the county.

For more updates on the new case as they are made publicly available, stay connected to the Tuscaloosa Thread.