New Sentence for "Jody's" Killer Shaun Ryan

 

Early in the morning of January 24, 2015, a Florence man and woman met their death at Jody's, a Colbert County restaurant. The male, Gary Baskins, was shot execution style, while the female, Kayla Glover, was considered collateral damage. 

Detectives soon had information linking the crime to three individuals. One of the alleged suspects remains free, a second is incarcerated awaiting another murder charge, while the third, Shaun Michael Ryan, was arrested in January 2021 and charged with Capital Murder.

Ryan, at the age of 22, had been released from prison only two months before. Between his release and arrest in the shooting, he accumulated at least two more separate arrests in Lauderdale County.

The now 28 year-old Ryan was convicted of drug crimes in October of last year and sentenced as a violent habitual offender. He received a term of life with the possibility of parole and is currently in the Lauderdale County Detention Center. 

Due to current pandemic conditions, it's unknown if the department of corrections will now transfer Ryan to a state facility or if he will first face the Capital Murder charges in Colbert. If found guilty there, he faces a future of never seeing the free world again.

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Read a full account of the murders here: Murder in Muscle Shoals Vol. II