Johnny Robinson ( 1947 – 1963 ) was a young African-American teenager who , at age 16 , was shot and killed by a police officer in the unrest following the 16th Street Church Bombing in Birmingham , Alabama . Robinson and several others were allegedly throwing rocks at a car draped with a Confederate flag . A Birmingham police officer , Jack Parker , who was riding in the back seat of a police car , shot and killed Robinson . Parker was never indicted for the killing and claimed that he had only fired a warning shot , and that a stray pellet must have killed Robinson
16th Street Church Bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Shooting of Johnny Robinson