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DA: Fatal shooting was retaliation, not self-defense
Published Tuesday, November 17, 2009
District Attorney Randall Houston said he is satisfied with the plea agreements two Clanton men entered Monday in connection with a 2006 fatal shooting.
With their pleas, Christopher Iman Ulmer, 33, and Kowosky Tywan Christian, 31, avoided being tried on murder and attempted murder charges.
Ulmer pled guilty to manslaughter, and Christian confessed to hindering prosecution.
Under the agreements, Ulmer faces 15 years in prison when he is sentenced next month. Circuit Judge Ben Fuller sentenced Christian on Monday to three years in prison.
The men were scheduled to stand trial in connection with the 2006 shooting death of Issac Dedarge Bulger of Clanton — a shooting in which Houston said nobody was truly innocent.
According to the district attorney’s office, a group of men, including Bulger, shot at Ulmer and Christian on the morning of Dec. 19, 2006.
Later in the day, shots were fired from the truck occupied by Ulmer and Christian into Bulger’s car, striking him in the head.
“They decided it was their turn to shoot,” Houston said.
Bulger died the next day, and Ulmer and Christian turned themselves over to police.
Authorities don’t know what the two groups were fighting over, Houston said.
The defendants had planned to argue that the shooting was self-defense, but the state disagreed.
“In our view, it was retaliation,” said Houston. “If this had all happened at one time, you might have a justified self-defense case, but this was hours later.”
The district attorney’s office said Ulmer and Christian should have worked with law enforcement after the morning shooting and not ran from police that afternoon.
No evidence suggests anybody from Bulger’s car fired shots the second time, Houston said.
Authorities don’t believe Christian fired any shots, but that he did drive the car from which Ulmer fired.
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Posted by happyone (anonymous) on November 17, 2009 at 1:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How can anyone say if there were no evidence of shooting coming from the victims car if the evidence was tampered with? Any evidence that could help a case should not be touched. Maybe this is why there was no evidence showing a second shot from the victims car. Kowosky just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong person!
Posted by southernpride (anonymous) on November 17, 2009 at 1:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
He may should of went to law enforcement for help but then and again, live by the gun, die by the gun. So to speak.
Posted by southernpride (anonymous) on November 17, 2009 at 1:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
perhaps the DA threw the shell casing in the pond in this case like he did in another murdeer trial. LOL
Posted by smiley (anonymous) on November 17, 2009 at 2:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Southern Pride: Could you please find something else to comment on? Give it a rest!
Posted by SECorBust (anonymous) on November 18, 2009 at 7:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
He's probably not your "friend" anymore if he read this blog KwsG.
The question is what would the law have done if Christian and Ulmer had called them instead of going Vigilante? What would Bulger and company have done in retaliation for them going to the police? - Obviously their experience has been that the police don't solve problems, they just compound them.
Posted by southernpride (anonymous) on November 18, 2009 at 10:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ok smiley, do you not think what he did was a major blunder and should not be forgotten?
Dear kw, RW is okay I guess.l But he does play the good old boy system to the hilt. He has had tickets to be dismissed because the ticketed was one of his cronies or a person of position.
However, to be fair, the good old boy system is everywhere.
Posted by smiley (anonymous) on November 18, 2009 at 4:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sure I do, but after a while I think we should move on to better things to discuss. I think the purpose of these comments should be for concentrating on the article itself. Besides, how do you know he fixed some tickets for somebody? Only law enforcement or people who work closely with them would know if that happens or not.
To the Bulger Family, as well as the Christian and Ulmer Family: My prayers are with you!
Posted by southernpride (anonymous) on November 19, 2009 at 4:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
smiley are you fishing to see who I am? If it is true, does it make any difference as to who I am?
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