Courtesy of Chette Williams Hudl Police say the son of Auburn University’s longtime team chaplain has been killed while attempting to rob a man in metro Atlanta. DeKalb County police say Chette Williams Jr. was shot to death during a confrontation Saturday night. Police say Williams pulled up in a car at a gas station and tried to rob another…
An Alabama district attorney says there has been no decision about whether to prosecute a woman who was shot in the stomach during a fight and lost her fetus. A grand jury indicted 27-year-old Marshae Jones on manslaughter charges. Jones was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her. Jemison was initially charged with manslaughter, but a Jefferson County…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The Latest on the shooting of two police officers in Alabama (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Officials have released the name of an Alabama police sergeant killed in an early morning shooting. Birmingham police officials identified the officer as 44-year-old Sgt. Wytasha Carter. Local news media report Carter had served with the Birmingham Police Department since…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A Selma man is found shot to death in his front yard Friday morning and police needs help from the public to find his killer. Sixty-three year old Charlie Sanders was found at his home on the 1600 block of Tremont Street. Morris Sanders is his brother. “He didn’t want nothing but to make people…
Selma police say a man accidentally shot himself and his girlfriend with a gun he claimed to have found. Lt. Sam Miller says officers responded to a report of two gunshot victims late Friday night or early Saturday morning. Miller said the man found a handgun and either fired it accidentally or because he didn’t realize it was loaded. Miller…
A city councilman from Mobile, Alabama, is in stable condition after he was shot in the face in Johannesburg, South Africa. The city released a statement Monday from relatives of councilman C.J. Small Jr. saying he was shot Saturday when someone ambushed a tour bus on which he was riding. The statement says Small and others were robbed of cellphones…
