28 September 2018 :
A Mobile County jury has recommended Derrick Dearman, 30, White, be sentenced to death for mass murders. Earlier this month, Dearman entered pleas of guilty in the Aug. 20, 2016 killing of 5 people. Victims were Robert Lee Brown (26), Joseph Adam Turner (27), Shannon Melissa Randall (36), Justin Kaleb Reed (23) and Chelsea Marie Reed (23), who was pregnant at the time. The only adult to survive the deadly event was Dearman's off-again, on-again girlfriend, Laneta Lester, who was staying at the home as Turner was Lester's brother. Turner and Randall's 3-month-old son was also in the house as the killings unfolded but was spared from the attacks. Judge Rick Stout's courtroom. Stout will formally sentence Dearman on Oct. 12.
