Cell phone murders

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On September 25, 1996, in Huntsville, Alabama a mass shooting occurred when, due to a conflict over a stolen cell phone, a group of three men opened fire inside a house, fatally shooting four of the occupants while injuring two others. The perpetrators – Joey Wilson, Nicholas Acklin, and Corey Johnson – were all arrested and charged with multiple counts of capital murder. A total of nineteen rounds were fired by all three perpetrators in the shootings. Wilson and Acklin were both found guilty of capital murder, and sentenced to death in 1998. Johnson pleaded guilty to felony murder and served 15 years before his release in 2011, before he was subsequently jailed for life in a 2016 murder case. Both Wilson and Acklin are currently on death row at the Holman Correctional Facility.

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