On the night of February 25, 2016, the quiet of Thomas Drive in the Oakman area of Walker County, Alabama, was broken by a domestic fight that spiraled into gunfire. Irvin DeWayne Mayes, a 47-year-old White man, was shot at his home around 8:30 p.m., and sheriff’s officials said he died from the gunshot wound. Investigators treated it immediately as a homicide, but in the first hours after his death they released almost nothing beyond the bare fact that a man had been killed at his own residen
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