From The Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM — The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office has identified an 80-year-old landlord who reportedly shot and killed a tenant and then took his own life last week.
Deputies say Vance was on the front porch of the residence and shot himself as they approached him.
“The decedent sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound injury following the murder of another person,” Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Bill Yates stated in a report on Vance’s demise. “The death is being investigated as a suicide and, all questions regarding the circumstances surrounding the death should be made to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.”
Vance died the next day, succumbing to his injury at UAB Hospital.