RKnowley
03-31-2007, 05:37 PM
Body Identified as Fugitive; Andrew Charles Freeman
Body found last month identified as Texas man
By David Mackey
03-31-2007
TALLADEGA COUNTY — A man found shot dead in Talladega County last month has been identified as Andrew Charles Freeman, 23, a fugitive from Tyler, Texas.
Lt. Mike Hubbard, chief investigator for the Talladega County Sheriff’s Department, said authorities received a tip Tuesday from a woman who recognized the dead man as a friend who had been missing for several weeks.
Freeman was found dead in a wooded area off Glover’s Ferry Road in west Talladega County Feb. 25, with gunshot wounds to the head and back. He had no identification with him. Investigators spent weeks using clues from an autopsy and combing missing person files with no success. They have now learned Freeman had traveled to Birmingham to stay with friends, but an associate in Texas became worried when she was unable to reach him for several weeks. She then traveled to Birmingham and began searching local media outlets in the area for any word on Freeman.
Freeman was wanted in Texas on charges of aggravated kidnapping since 2005, Officer Don Martin of the Tyler Police Department said in a press release. Tyler is a city of about 100,000 in east Texas. Freeman was identified as one of two suspects in a Feb. 26, 2005, incident in which two men invaded an apartment and beat a man with a baseball bat and golf club, claiming he owed them money. The victim convinced the assailants to take him to his workplace, where he called police. One suspect, Robert Adkinson, 21, of Tyler, was arrested there, but the other, allegedly Freeman, fled and had not been located.
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Body found last month identified as Texas man
By David Mackey
03-31-2007
TALLADEGA COUNTY — A man found shot dead in Talladega County last month has been identified as Andrew Charles Freeman, 23, a fugitive from Tyler, Texas.
Lt. Mike Hubbard, chief investigator for the Talladega County Sheriff’s Department, said authorities received a tip Tuesday from a woman who recognized the dead man as a friend who had been missing for several weeks.
Freeman was found dead in a wooded area off Glover’s Ferry Road in west Talladega County Feb. 25, with gunshot wounds to the head and back. He had no identification with him. Investigators spent weeks using clues from an autopsy and combing missing person files with no success. They have now learned Freeman had traveled to Birmingham to stay with friends, but an associate in Texas became worried when she was unable to reach him for several weeks. She then traveled to Birmingham and began searching local media outlets in the area for any word on Freeman.
Freeman was wanted in Texas on charges of aggravated kidnapping since 2005, Officer Don Martin of the Tyler Police Department said in a press release. Tyler is a city of about 100,000 in east Texas. Freeman was identified as one of two suspects in a Feb. 26, 2005, incident in which two men invaded an apartment and beat a man with a baseball bat and golf club, claiming he owed them money. The victim convinced the assailants to take him to his workplace, where he called police. One suspect, Robert Adkinson, 21, of Tyler, was arrested there, but the other, allegedly Freeman, fled and had not been located.
More at link: http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2007/d...-7c30u2324.htm (http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2007/dh-talladegacounty-0331-dmackey-7c30u2324.htm)
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