Murder

Dallas Co. Sheriff’s Office Investigates County’s 2nd Murder of 2019

From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the county’s second murder of the year. Sheriff Mike Granthum says 30 year old Danathian Crum was shot to death Friday night while answering the door at his girlfriend’s house. Granthum says deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call from a female juvenile at a house on the 700…

Formal Charges Filed in Kamille McKinney Case

Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr has announced formal charges in the kidnapping and murder of 3-year-old Kamille McKinney. 39-year-old Patrick Stallworth and 29-year-old Derick Irisha Brown were both charged Thursday with capital murder of a victim less than 14 years of age. Both are being held in the Jefferson County Jail with no bond. Kamille McKinney’s remains were found…

Montgomery Man Faces Life in Prison for Murder He Committed at 16

Rodriguez Reed has been found guilty of the murder of Ladarion Thompson, District Attorney Daryl Bailey announced today. In the early morning hours of December 21, 2014, Reed got into an argument with Thompson at the Citgo Station on Day Street. Reed produced a handgun and chased Thompson around the parking lot, firing multiple shots at him. Reed shot Thompson…

WANTED: “Armed and Dangerous” Suspect in Tuskegee Murder

Tuskegee Police are searching for a suspect wanted in connection to a homicide investigation that happened at the McDonald’s. On Saturday, July 6, at approximately 10:40 p.m., police responded to the 400 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard in reference to a person with a gun and another person shot. Upon arrival, officers discovered 18-year old Cedric Howard of Tuskegee…

Husband Charged in Elmore’s 1st Murder of 2019

  Source: Elmore County Jail The Elmore Co. Sheriff’s Office is investigating the first murder of 2019 in Elmore. 51-year-old Willie Reeves has been charged with shooting-and-killing his 52-year-old wife Andrea. Officials say the shooting was Sunday night in the 300 block of Lucky Town Loop, where a party went into the night. Police say during the party, guests discovered…

Crenshaw Family Continues Search for Answers in the May 2011 Murder of DeLange Harris

The family of a Crenshaw County man is searching for answers 8 years after his death. DeLange Harris was murdered in May 2011. Friday night the family of DeLange Harris held a vigil for him and revealed a sign asking for answers. Balloons were also released in memory of Harris. His body was found on May 3rd 2011 on Athens Church…

On CBS Sunday Morning: A Non-Fiction Harper Lee/Alexander City/Murder Mystery.

The late Tom Radney, an Alexander City lawyer who figures in the CBS story about a preacher charged with several murder who is himself murdered. Radney represented both the preacher and then the man charged with killing him. From CBS: “After more than four decades, the mysteries remain, shrouded in the fog that rolls in over Lake Martin, and the…

Lethal Injection Slated for Alabama Man Convicted of 4 deaths in 1997

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama has scheduled a lethal injection for a man convicted in the 1997 deaths of four people, including two young girls. The Alabama Supreme Court set a May 16 execution date for Michael Brandon Samra. Samra was convicted of helping his friend Mark Duke kill his father Randy Duke, his father’s girlfriend Debra Hunt and her…

Louisiana Store Clerk in Robbery has Died

Suspects were chased across the Montogmery area Saturday night.

A high speed chase Saturday night in Montgomery County ended with three Mississippi residents in the car being arrested and a fourth—a fourteen year old girl— handed over to her parents. They were suspects in a the robbery of a convenience store in Louisiana earlier that day in which the clerk was shot. Now a Louisiana official tells Alabama News…