Alabama student dies after being shot in Florida last year
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A University of Alabama student has died more than a year after he was shot in the head during a Florida vacation.
Al.com reports (http://bit.ly/2hW3RLZ ) 23-year-old Rivers Starkey died Thursday at a hospital in his hometown of Florence.
He was first hospitalized in Pensacola, Florida, and then at Shepherd Center in Atlanta before being moved to Florence.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His father, Trey Starkey, said the family was "proud to know that Rivers has had such an impact on so many lives."
Rivers Starkey traveled to Navarre, Florida, on a holiday break in October 2015. He was at the home of a friend's uncle, John Marshall Fitzgerald, when an argument broke out. Fitzgerald got a pistol and demanded Starkey and his nephew leave. He shot Starkey several times, later testifying Starkey tried to grab the gun.
A jury recently acquitted Fitzgerald of attempted murder charges, finding he acted in self-defense.