A Mobile County jury Wednesday found a man guilty in the 2016 murder of a woman killed on her way to work.
Iseral Bernard Hall as convicted of the Oct. 18, 2016 killing of DeLauna Anderson Powell.
“Our thoughts and prayers will continue to be with Ms. Anderson’s devoted family,” Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Wright said in a statement. “We are happy that after four years, justice has finally been served for this truly innocent victim. I would also like to thank Assistant District Attorney Jessica Catlin, the Mobile Police Department and the entire MCDA team for their work on seeing that Israel Hall was held accountable for his actions.”
Powell was found dead in her car early in the morning of Oct. 18, 2016. The single mother had been on her way to a shipyard job when she became the victim of an apparently random crime.
Police reported that officers were called to the area of Broad Street and the Interstate 10 Service Road at 5:00 a.m. for a report of a single vehicle wreck. Powell came an intersection at Duvall Street and I-10, when she as wounded by multiple shots through her car. Mortally injured, she drove a short distance along the service road, made it up the on-ramp onto I-10 and crashed. Initially, police thought they were responding to a simple single-vehicle wreck. Afterward, evidence of close-range shooting indicated a robbery attempt.
Powell died at the hospital.
Police arrested Hall, 20, and Antonio Lang, 22, in December 2016, acting on tips. Hall was charged with murder; Lang, who investigators believe was the shooter, is charged with capital murder and has not yet been tried.