--- title: Alabama Man Fatally Shot Using App to Track Stolen Phone description: Investigators believe the victim's phone was stolen from his car and he used an app to track it to a vehicle at the parking lot. canonical: https://time.com/4232343/man-fatally-shot-stolen-phone/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-22T14:58:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:15:48.784Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Alabama Man Fatally Shot After Using App to Track Stolen Phone og:description: Investigators believe the victim's phone was stolen from his car og:url: https://time.com/4232343/man-fatally-shot-stolen-phone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alabama Man Fatally Shot After Using App to Track Stolen Phone twitter:description: Investigators believe the victim's phone was stolen from his car twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alabama Man Fatally Shot After Using App to Track Stolen Phone by [Alexander Smith / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexander Smith / NBC News Feb 22, 2016 2:58 PM CUT by [Alexander Smith / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexander Smith / NBC News Feb 22, 2016 2:58 PM CUT A 23-year-old man in Alabama was shot and killed after he used an app to track his stolen cellphone and tried to confront his alleged thief, police said. The victim, who has not been identified, was gunned down Sunday outside a Baptist church in Fairfield, which is part of the Birmingham metro area. Fairfield Police Chief Leon Davis said investigators believe the victim’s phone was stolen from his car and he used an app to track it to a vehicle at the parking lot. There, he confronted his alleged thief and the suspect shot him twice in the chest… [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mobile/alabama-victim-shot-after-trying-use-app-track-cellphone-n523401?cid=par-time%5F20160222 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4232343/man-fatally-shot-stolen-phone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4232343/man-fatally-shot-stolen-phone/"},"headline":"Alabama Man Fatally Shot After Using App to Track Stolen Phone","datePublished":"2016-02-22T14:58:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:15:48.784Z","description":"Investigators believe the victim's phone was stolen from his car","url":"https://time.com/4232343/man-fatally-shot-stolen-phone/","keywords":["Crime","alabama","iPhone","Tech"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexander Smith / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4232343/man-fatally-shot-stolen-phone/","name":"Alabama Man Fatally Shot After Using App to Track Stolen Phone"}}]}] ```