Russell Lee Allen was 21 when he was shot during a robbery at a Domino’s Pizza on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Alabama, late on November 4, 2010. He was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center with critical injuries and later died from those wounds. The Mobile Police Department opened a homicide investigation and sought public assistance for leads.

On the morning of November 15, 2010, investigators acting on a citizen tip went to the 900 block of West Tangle Wood Drive in Mobile and located 18-year-old John Earl Dortch. Detectives determined Dortch was responsible for Allen’s death and charged him with Capital Murder in connection with the robbery and shooting. If anyone witnessed the robbery or has additional information about what happened that night, please come forward.