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4 days ago
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Mobile County murder suspect arrested after deadly shooting
UPDATE (3:15 p.m.): has learned new details in the case of a Wilmer woman arrested after sheriff's deputies say she shot a man with a shotgun. The Mobile County Sheriff's Office responded to the shooting just before 11 p.m. Tuesday at a home on Mort Road in Wilmer. When deputies got inside the home, they found the victim, 58-year-old Andre Griffin, with a gunshot to the head, and his hands in casts. He was pronounced dead at the scene. News 5 has learned that the victim and the suspect, Velma Edwards-Nix, 62, were in a relationship, and they were living together. Nix told deputies Griffin tried to choke her, prompting her to shoot him before she went to a neighbor's home to call 911. Nix was booked into Metro Jail at 4:45 Wednesday morning. PREVIOUS STORY MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested a woman accused of shooting a man to death in Wilmer. Why is the Alabama child abuse registry easy to get on but hard to get off of? Deputies responded around 10:51 p.m. Tuesday to the 14000 block of Mort Road in response to a reported shooting. LOCATION: There, they found Andre Griffin, 58, dead inside the home with a gunshot wound to his head and both hands in casts, an MSCO news release said. Velma Edwards-Nix, 62, who reportedly lived in the home with Griffin, 'stated Andre tried to choke her and she got her shotgun and shot Andre,' the release said. 'After she shot him, she ran to her neighbor's home and they called 911.' UPDATE: Okaloosa County School District responds after teacher's arrest for allegedly having sex with a student Deputies arrested Edwards-Nix and charged her with murder. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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24-05-2025
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Man receives life sentence after conviction in 2022 Donelson murder case
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Ronnie Phillips, 70, was handed an automatic life sentence Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of murdering a woman in Donelson and kidnapping his girlfriend. According to the District Attorney's Office, on July 19, 2022, Phillips spent the day with his 31-year-old girlfriend and her aunt, Christine Estok, before they all returned to his house in the 200 block of Barker Road. Estok slept on a sofa in the den while Phillips and the 31-year-old woman went to sleep in a bedroom, officials said. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Man admits to shooting woman inside Donelson home; shooting was initially reported as self-inflicted The 31-year-old woman reportedly awoke the next morning to find Estok dead on the sofa with a gunshot wound to the head. She told investigators that Phillips admitted to shooting Estok because he believed her aunt was trying to introduce her to another man. The District Attorney's Office said he threatened his girlfriend with a gun and a taser, but agreed not to harm her if she told authorities that Estok had died by suicide. He then staged the crime scene so it appeared that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted and called emergency services. When authorities arrived, the 31-year-old woman informed them that Phillips had killed her aunt. News 2 previously reported that in 2022 Phillips admitted to shooting Estok after a long interview with investigators at police headquarters. He was arrested and booked into Metro Jail on a $725,000 bond. ⏩ On Wednesday the jury found Phillips guilty of all charges in less than an hour of deliberations, officials said. He was convicted of first degree premeditated murder, especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
