The Montgomery Police Department has made an arrest in the Thursday, August 18, shooting death of 30-year-old John Whitehurst of Montgomery. MPD detectives charged Vashard Belton, 20, of Montgomery with one count of murder. Belton was taken into custody in the 2100 block of East South Boulevard by MPD detectives on August 18. Following his arrest, he was transported to the Montgomery County…
The Alabama Supreme Court is refusing to hear the case of a Montgomery police officer charged with murder. The court without comment on Thursday denied a request by officer Aaron Smith to review a judge’s decision setting bond for the officer’s release. Smith is free on $150,000 bond, but defense lawyer Mickey McDermott claims the amount is twice what it…
On Thursday, July 7, after nearly a year long investigation the Demopolis Police Department Criminal Investigation Division has made an arrest in the Unsolved Murder that occurred back in October 30, 2015 that killed Ray Anthony Rowser and injured Jennifer Martin. Demopolis Police Chief Tommie Reese said that Lawrence Hawkins, 41, of Demopolis, Alabama was arrested in connection with the…
A Butler County family finally has closure after the woman who shot and killed Steven Faulk pleaded guilty to his murder. Barbara Wood took a plea deal for the December 2012 murder of Faulk in exchange for two of her lesser charges being dropped. Faulk’s body was found in the front yard of Wood’s family home in December of 2012. He died…
An appeals court is overturning the death sentence of a man convicted of killing three people in southeast Alabama two decades ago. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday sided with Jerry Jerome Smith, who was convicted of killing Willie Flournoy, Theresa Helms and David Bennett at a home in Houston County in October 1996. Police at the time…
A 26-year-old man convicted of killing his cousin has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Nicktavus Pringle’s attorney has argued that his cousin Demarcus Pringle had schizophrenia and attempted to stab him on the day of the murder. Prosecutors say Nicktavus Pringle wasn’t in danger at the time of the shooting. Pringle’s attorney Susan James said Wednesday that the…
NEW YORK (AP) – A judge in New York has sentenced an Alabama resident to prison for shooting a man in the face outside a New Year’s Eve party in 1991. Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson says 55-year-old Derrick Lloyd of Montgomery, Alabama was sentenced Wednesday. He got 23 years to life. He was convicted of second-degree murder in March….
On Monday March 14, Macon County Sheriff’s Office requested the State Bureau Investigation (SBI) investigate the murder of Timothy Woods. The SBI, with the assistance of Macon County Sheriff’s Office, developed probable cause to arrest brothers Willie and Derrick Brown in Woods’ murder. Murder warrants for the Brown brothers were obtained Friday, March 25. The same day SBI Agents were…
A judge has found probable cause to send the case of Montgomery police officer Aaron Smith to a grand jury. Smith appeared in court today for a preliminary hearing in connection to the Feb. 25 shooting death of Gregory Gunn. Smith was arrested after he shot and killed Gunn, a 58-year-old resident of the Mobile Heights community in Montgomery. It happened in the…
A missing woman’s body was found in Clarke County, in the trunk of a car. Monique Presnall-Kidd of Grove Hill, AL, was found dead behind a business in the Walker Springs Community. She was reported missing Thursday when she didn’t show up to work. When deputies went to check on her, they found her door had been kicked in and…
