Facebook Live outside of Mobiles federal courthouse prompts witness-tampering charge [Video]

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A relative of a Prichard man convicted in a murder-for-hire conspiracy pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a witness-tampering charge related to a social media livestream.

A sworn affidavit from an FBI agent lays out the allegations. Law enforcement investigators alleged that Jasmin Alyiah Rowser, 29, of Chickasaw, made a Facebook Live on Oct. 10, with the federal courthouse in Mobile in the background.

That date is significant because it was while the trial of Darrius D. Rowser and two co-defendants was going on inside the courthouse. Prosecutors alleged that Rowser committed three violent acts in 2022 as part of that scheme: a fatal shooting that was a carjacking attempt outside a Mississippi casino; a shooting at the Paparazzi Lounge on Dauphin Street that wounded four people; and a shooting at the Walmart off of the Interstate 65 Service Road.

During Jasmin Rowser’s 7 minute and 45 second video, according to …