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Man Indicted On Federal Charges For Killing Woman At Apartment Complex Behind Nine Mile Kohl’s
August 26, 2025
An Alabama man has been indicted on federal murder charges for allegedly fatally shooting and running over a woman January 2 near an apartment complex behind Kohl’s on Nine Mile Road.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to the area of an apartment complex on Baldridge Drive about 8:30 p.m. to find that 30-year-old Starmichael L. Tucker had been shot several times. She later died at the hospital.
Charles Jerome Carson-Dowdy, 30, is now facing federal charges of cyberstalking, interstate domestic violence, murder through use of a firearm, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
If convicted, Carson-Dowdy faces up to life imprisonment on the charges in the Indictment.
Carson-Dowdy is scheduled to make his initial appearance and arraignment before United States Magistrate Judge Hope Thai Cannon at the United States Courthouse in Pensacola on Thursday.
The case is being investigated jointly by the ATF, Homeland Security Investigations, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the State Attorney’s Office, and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, which conducted the initial investigation.
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3 Responses to “Man Indicted On Federal Charges For Killing Woman At Apartment Complex Behind Nine Mile Kohl’s”
@RD these charges were Federal, not state. If Florida charges him after that, you can bet he’ll get 1st Degree
They are probably waiting to see how the Federal charges pan out. There is no doubt the State of Florida would charge him if there wasn’t federal charges. Also it doesn’t cost the state of Florida anything right now to let the Fed’s put him in federal prison and if some prez in future pardons him like the last prez.did with alot of bad people that don’t deserve it( auto pen). Then the state of FL can charge him then and put him in state prison after state courts are done with him.That my 2cent
First degree murder in Florida is defined as “the unlawful killing of a human being, either by premeditated design and intention, or when it occurs during the commission of certain felonies”. I wonder why that didn’t apply here. Seems like he qualifies.