John T. Gomillion, a 28-year-old male, died on June 26, 1932, in Covington County, Alabama, after a violent roadside encounter near Brooks while serving as a deputy sheriff. The accounts that survive online place him on a highway confrontation with two brothers who were said to be carrying whiskey, a small detail that still captures the tense, combustible mood of that Prohibition-era South, where law enforcement, liquor, and personal pride could turn a stop into a gunfight in a heartbeat. What b
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