Birmingham, Alabama
July 19, 2019
Agencies: Alabama State Bureau of Investigation | Birmingham Police Department Alabama
Cause of death: Shooting
Last updated: over 4 years ago
Officials say 35-year-old Roderick Wilson of Pinson was shot and killed by police after wounding the officer, Cullen Stafford.
Stafford was shot multiple times and is recovering from surgery.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office says Wilson died from multiple gunshot wounds but didn’t say how many.
The gunfire began after police were called to a robbery at a small grocery store.
Al.com reports that Wilson had been arrested on more than half-dozen charges over the past decade, mostly recently just two weeks ago. He was accused of pulling a knife on sheriff’s deputies during an arrest in 2017.