An Alabama woman and former Birmingham police detective killed her romantic rival in a love triangle gone bad. Now, she will never walk free again.
A Jefferson County judge handed Alfreda Fluker a life term in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting death of Kanisha Nicole Fuller, 43. Fluker was found guilty and convicted by a jury of capital murder and attempted murder of her former long-time boyfriend and fellow police officer Mario Theodore White.
“Intentional, cold, calculated, exact. A killer -that’s what she is,” said Jefferson County Assistant District Attorney Eric Hamilton, reported AL.com.
On April 10, 2020, officers responded outside a home on Pearson Avenue in Germania Park, where they found Fuller suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and White who was unharmed. The victim was rushed to UAB Hospital, where she later died.
According to prosecutors, the 41-year-old Fluker discovered Fuller with White, who was off duty in his unmarked police car. In a rage, the defendant fired 15 shots into the vehicle from her department’s issued gun. At first, White claimed unknown assailants carried out the shooting. However, other witnesses contradicted his testimony, who said they heard White arguing with a woman. A few more minutes into the interview, White eventually told investigators Fluker had been the shooter. Fluker was immediately arrested and held without bond at the Jefferson County jail. She was immediately fired.
During the trial, Fluker’s defense attorney Erskine Mathis did not dispute his client shot Fuller but claimed it was not intentional. Then, he told the jurors White and the victim had been in the backseat on top of each other, which infuriated Fluker in the moment of passion. In addition, he said the defendant had been aiming high when she fired the shots.
The jury disagreed!
“I feel God is good all the time. No matter what your title is you just can’t go around killing people. People got family. It feels like I’ve been handed a script in a play. They said here, just take this. This is your life from now on and you have to deal with it. it’s not fair, it’s not fair,” said Fuller’s mother Janice Andrews, according to CBS 42.
Fluker received an additional life sentence for the attempted murder charge. She was ordered to serve both sentences consecutively.
The defendant and White were both part of the Birmingham Police Department’s Crime Reduction Team. Fluker was a 15-year veteran of the department.
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