No arrests have been made in either case.
Montgomery Police say they are investigating 2 separate Wednesday night shootings that occurred around the same time, 8:00 p.m. The first shooting in question took place on the 200 block of Tallapoosa St. When police arrived at the scene the night of March 31. An adult male was found suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound. A similar scenario occurred on…
MIDFIELD, Ala. (AP) – Police say two people were found shot to death in Midfield. Al.com reports that the bodies were found blocks away from each other Wednesday night. Police Chief Jesse Bell says the two shootings are believed to be related. Bell says officers arrived to find a female in her late teens unresponsive in a Dodge Charger. She…
Gun crimes are on the rise in Montgomery. Officials are asking the community to help them curb violent crime. Just last weekend, 11 people were injured in 6 shootings. “the bottom line is we’ve got too many guns, its gun violence, the way they settle conflicts today, it’s through guns.” At his weekly briefing Thursday, Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange said…
The third occurred this afternoon when two women showed up at a Montgomery hospital with non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Police say they don’t know where the women were shot…and they’re still investigating the circumstances. The other shootings happened Saturday, one on Mobile Highway and the other on Queensbury Drive. One of the Mobile Highway victims had injuries that were described…
The first shooting came about 1:00 pm, with police locating two men who had been shot, one of them with life threatening injuries. It happened in the 46-hundred block of mobile highway. Both victims were hospitalized. Later in the afternoon police went to the 900 block of Queensbury Drive. Authorities say a man and a teenage girl were hospitalized with…
Four shootings in the recent month have Andalusia Police working overtime. APD continues to search for suspects. The shootings happened on August 6th on Snead Street; August 11th on Oak Street; August 29th on Pugh Street; and most recently, September 6th on Little Street. Police Chief Paul Hudson says the only connection in each case has been drug-related activity. “They’re…
A federal jury has sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black church members in a racially motivated attack in 2015. Roof, who is white, faced either life in prison or execution for the slayings on June 17, 2015. The Justice Department says he is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes. The jury…
