Thomas Terry Johnson Jr., now 49, was taken into custody and jailed on $75,000 bond. He is charged in the 1996 shooting death of Joseph Todd Jowers,
Updated:Joseph Todd Jowers was shot to death Oct. 13, 1996 outside of a Tuscaloosa lounge. More than 26 years passed without an arrest in the shooting death of Joseph Todd Jowers as he left a Tuscaloosa lounge on Oct. 13, 1996.
On Thursday, authorities said they jailed a suspect in the cold case after a Tuscaloosa County grand jury indicted a 49-year-old man on murder charges. “For the past year, investigators with the [Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office’s] Violent Crimes Unit worked diligently, re-evaluated evidence, located numerous persons who were determined to be witnesses to the original case, and then presented their findings to a grand jury,” said Capt. Jack Kennedy with the unit.Jowers, 32, was walking a woman to her car about 2:20 a.m. on Oct. 13, 1996, when someone shot him in the head outside Classic’s Lounge on 37th Street East..
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