16-year-old Shaywanna Robinson was shot and killed in her own home in 2007.
The man police say was involved in her death, 39-year-old Jhordis Woods, is sitting in Metro Jail.
According to Assistant District Attorney Louis Walker, he says someone else pulled the trigger killing Robinson.Walker says the new witness helped crack the case back open. “Based on that new evidence we’ve acquired we were able to identify one of the individuals involved in that horrible murder that happened back in 2007,” Walker explained.But he says it wasn’t Woods who took the deadly shot.
“All the evidence suggests that there were two individuals that broke into the home that the victim was residing in,” Walker said. “An innocent 16-year-old girl killed with a shotgun.” Walker says Woods is still equally responsible for Shaywanna’s death under Alabama’s felony murder law.Woods was serving a federal prison sentence for being a convicted felon with a firearm.Download the FOX10 Weather App. Get life-saving severe weather warnings and alerts for your location no matter where you are. Available free in the
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