From the West Alabama Newsroom– A Dallas County man is convicted of assault in a 2018 Orrville shooting. A jury found 47 year old Jimmie Powell guilty of the lesser included charge of assault in the first degree on Wednesday. Powell was being tried for attempted murder. He was accused of shooting Darius Irby of Orrville in the face with…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A Selma man is convicted on multiple charges — in a fatal shooting at a Selma gas station. Jimmy Lee Tyus was convicted of murder — two counts of first-degree assault — and shooting-into-an-occupied-vehicle Thursday — by a Dallas County jury. Tyus killed 26 year old Earnest Daniels III — at the Raceway Gas Station…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A jury on Thursday found a north Alabama man guilty of killing his pregnant wife and her family in 2015. Jurors deliberated for nearly two days before finding Christopher Henderson guilty of multiple counts of capital murder, news outlets reported. Kristin Smallwood Henderson was nine months pregnant with Henderson’s child at the time of the killings….
An Alabama man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the Oath Keepers extremist group has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and is cooperating with prosecutors in another major boost for the Justice Department in its sweeping Jan. 6 investigation. Mark Grods appeared in federal court in Washington on Wednesday. He is the second member of the far-right Oath…
The Elmore County Circuit Court has convicted a Millbrook man of Domestic Violence Assault. Luis Stinson Jr., in 2018, was charged in a shooting of a 51-year-old female and her 21-year-old son. The shooting occurred on July 21 in the 4000 block of Grandview Road. The female victim suffered life-threatening injuries while the son suffered from gunshot wounds. The suspect…
United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Chief Judge Kristi DuBose sentenced defendant Bryan Thompson, 44, to 35 years imprisonment. Thompson faces the following charges: *production of child pornography *distribution of child pornography Thompson pled guilty to the charges in December 2020. According to court documents, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency…
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) SAN ANTONIO (AP) – Federal authorities say a South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a terror charge for plotting to bomb or shoot up sites including the White House and Trump Tower in New York City in attacks inspired by the Islamic State group. Kristopher Sean Matthews pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge to provide material…
Arrest Date: 3/15/18Charge(s): Porn Obscene Matter (10 counts) On Wednesday, August 26, Charles Bennett Salter III, 38, of Montgomery, was sentenced to 121 months (10 years) in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The pronounced sentence in this case was at the very top of the federal sentencing guidelines….
On Friday, a Dale County jury found former MPD officer Aaron Cody Smith guilty on a manslaughter charge in the 2016 shooting death of Gregory Gunn. We went to the Mobile Heights community where Gunn lived and the shooting took place to get reaction from residents on the news of the guilty verdict. Residents were reluctant to speak on camera,…
The jury has heard the testimonies and closing statements. On day 5 of the Aaron Cody Smith murder trial, the jury will start deliberations and decide Smith’s fate. Before deliberations, Judge McLaughlin charged the jury stating, the jury must carefully consider entire evidence in the case and it must be beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt. While charging the…
