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    Samuele Marquis Walker Sentenced in 2017 AL Murder of Quintrius Lee Jackson


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    Case sent to grand jury for man charged with capital murder in gas station shooting


    By Ivana Hrynkiw
    AL.com

    The capital murder case against a Bessemer man was sent to a grand jury today following a preliminary hearing.

    Samuele Marquis Walker, 25, is charged with capital murder in the August shooting of Quintrius Lee Jackson. Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff Circuit Judge Reginald Jeter bound the case over to a grand jury Thursday morning after the 10 a.m. hearing. He ordered Walker to remain in the Jefferson County Jail without bond.

    Bessemer police Det. Jennifer Hamburger testified at today's hearing. She said the fatal shooting happened at the Shell station at 2801 Ninth Avenue North, also known as Bessemer Super Highway, around 5:25 p.m. that Thursday. She said there were two groups of people in separate cars- Walker and another man in one car; Jackson, Jackson's brother, and a friend in a second car.

    Hamburger said shortly after the shooting, Walker came to the police station and was interviewed. Walker told police that Jackson walked over to his vehicle and was "trying to get things out of his pockets" and rob him. Walker said Jackson reached into the car, and fired his gun.

    However, Hamburger said surveillance footage from the gas station does not show Jackson reaching into the car. The footage shows Jackson exiting his vehicle and walking over to Walker's vehicle with his hand on his waist, but no gun can be seen. "It appears Mr. Walker shot first," Hamburger said.

    An autopsy showed 25-year-old Jackson was shot several times in the heart, right lung, and right kidney. Hamburger said after he was shot, Jackson ran behind the Shell station and onto the sidewalk, before collapsing in the parking lot of an adjacent tire shop.

    Under cross examination from Walker's attorney Brett Gray, Hamburger detailed the stories of each person in the cars. A man in Jackson's car--the driver-- said he was about to go into the gas station convenience store to buy a beer, but his music was too loud to hear anything when the shooting occurred.

    The other man in that vehicle, Jackson's older brother, was found by police a few blocks away from the shooting scene. "He was scared, he was in shock. He didn't know what to do, so he just ran," Hamburger said.

    The brother was interviewed later that night and told police he saw the victim and Walker "lock eyes" before getting into a verbal altercation. Then, he said, Walker "came across the window" and shot. Jackson returned fire, his brother said. He told police he first heard three shots, followed by four more. He also told police his younger brother had a long-running feud with Walker.

    The driver of the car with Walker was in-- who Gray identified as a former police officer and correctional officer-- was also interviewed by detectives. He told police that Walker and Jackson were exchanging words, but he said Jackson reached down to his pants and told the car occupants to put their hands up. When that happened, the man told police Walker pulled out his gun and shot.

    Hamburger said the video does not show Walker raising his hands. She said the video does show Jackson was backing away from Walker's car when he was shot, and only shows him shoot after Walker fired first.

    After Jackson was located in the tire shop lot, efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 5:31 p.m.

    Hamburger said there were several cameras at the Shell station, but only one captured the shooting. Another camera in the back of the store showed Jackson running down the sidewalk before he collapsed.

    About seven shell casings were found in the immediate area of the scene, Hamburger said. They belonged to two different guns- a 9mm and a .40 caliber.

    Two guns, also a 9 mm and a .40 caliber, were found stashed in bushes behind the gas station, but Hamburger said police cannot confirm that those were the guns used in the shooting until the Department of Forensic Sciences examines them.

    Surveillance video from the back of the store does not show anyone putting the guns in the bushes, and Jackson did not pass those bushes when he ran from the scene.

    Hamburger said when Walker was interviewed, he said he "dropped that gun," but did not say where. He said after the shooting, he went to his mother's house.

    Walker was arrested the following day and charged with capital murder.

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    Last edited by Helen; 09-15-2017 at 05:45 AM. Reason: added state and yr in heading, deleted numerous unnecessary sentences

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    Walker was sentenced for murder, robbery and assault but could be released by 2022 according to ADOC records.
    http://www.doc.state.al.us/InmateHistory

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