Irvington, Alabama



From the Mobile’s WPMI.com of April 13, 2004

Irvington shooter, victim may have bumped heads before



New information has surfaced regarding the deadly shooting of a Theodore man in Irvington Sunday afternoon.



Family members say Sunday wasn’t the first time 52-year-old Wesley Vrazel came in contact with his shooter, 55-year-old Earl Rolls, Jr. Vrazel’s father says his son bumped heads with Rolls the day before he was killed at the same farm house when Vrazel went to visit a woman who lives there.



“He (Rolls) asked Wesley to leave,” said Vrazel’s father. That's when Vrazel tried his luck again the next day, but didn't make it out alive. The shooter claims he saw Vrazel reaching for what he thought was a weapon, so he fired his gun. Gerald Vrazel, one of Wesley’s brothers, says Rolls is lying about acting in self defense. “My brother owns a gun, but would never carry it with him," said Gerald Vrazel. "He keeps it locked up in his safe at his business in Theodore."



The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office would not confirm whether they found a weapon in Vrazel’s car Sunday. They say their investigation is continuing.

Subsequent news items about this incident have not been found.