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The New York Post reported that the deceased, Ricky Howard Hamrick III, was on a father-daughter road trip from Cleburne County to Bessemer, and the two planned to end the day by eating at Whataburger. Police told AL.Com that Hamrick had also arranged to sell two guns on Facebook Marketplace, but when he arrived for the transaction outside a Salvation Army, he was fatally shot in the head while sitting in his sedan with his daughter in the passenger seat . seat. “No provocation led to this shooting. We’re talking about down, dirty rotten cowards,” Lt. Christian Clemons told AL.com. Past Kelly Brown rushed to help the screaming girl who was covered in blood and wouldn’t leave her father’s side.
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“She got out of the car and came around and, bless her heart, she didn’t want to leave her dad,” Brown told AL.com. “He was saying, ‘They shot my dad, I don’t want my dad to die. There was nothing I could do but hold her. It was horrible. I couldn’t believe they did that in front of that baby. Even killing him – it’s just absurd.” We apologize, but this video failed to load. Hamrick’s mother believes it was a set-up as the pair of suspects stole the guns and fled the scene, according to WBMA. “It’s heartbreaking, it’s heartbreaking, because this girl can’t make out what she’s seen,” Maj. Robert Lyle of the Salvation Army of Central Alabama told the station.
