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Derrick Nichols, a 17-year-old Black male from Selma, Alabama, was first the subject of an urgent missing-person search after relatives reported that no one had seen or heard from him for nearly a week. On November 3, 2016, while his family was still hoping he would come home, a landowner discovered a body in a wooded area off River Road. By the next day, Selma police confirmed the body was Nichols. Contemporary reporting said he had been missing since October 28, and later memorial records list ...Read More
Victim Details

Derrick Nichols

Male

Black / African American

Selma

AL

2016-11-03

17

Derrick

Nichols

03/15/2026