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Mobile Police Investigate a Homicide on Government Street

Dec 31st, 2010

File Number: M-10-12-4453

On December 31, 2010 at approximately 3:47 a.m. Mobile Police responded to shots being fired in the area of Government Street near Dauphin Island Parkway. Upon arrival, officers found a man with an apparent gunshot wound inside of a vehicle. Mobile Fire Rescue responded and the man was pronounced dead on the scene.

Preliminary results of the investigation revealed the deceased man has been identified as 23 year old Ramon Tinson. Detectives have determined that while on Government Street, unknown subjects pulled up to the victim's vehicle and fired multiple shots striking the victim's vehicle and killing Tinson. Tinson's vehicle then left the roadway and struck a light pole. A second man was in the victim's vehicle but he was not injured in the incident.

Homicide detectives will continue the investigation and more information will be released as it becomes available. If anyone has any details of this incident, please call the Mobile Police Department at 208-7211, Crime Stoppers at 208-7000, or text to 274637 and include the keyword CRIME 411.


Officer Christopher Levy
Public Information Office
Office: 208-1926
Fax: 208-1758