Carol Robinson

3 days ago | al.com | Carol Robinson

Investigations are underway after separate shootings Sunday left three people injured. The first happened just 10 a.m. at 9th Street North and Fourth Avenue North. Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said two people were wounded in that incident, but additional details were not immediately available. Later on the Mother’s Day holiday, just before 2 p.m., a person was shot while inside a vehicle in the 200 block of 12th Street West. Wade said the extent of that victim’s injuries is not known.

5 days ago | al.com | Carol Robinson

Authorities have released the name of a man who was killed in a traffic crash while authorities say he was fleeing from a police officer. Alabama State Troopers on Friday identified the man as Willie Terrell Wills. He was 44 and lived in Moundville. The wreck happened at 10:58 p.m. Saturday, May 3, and also left a father and his two juvenile children seriously injured. Trooper Cpl. Reginal King said Wills was driving a Dodge Hornet when he was hit by the GMC Acadia driven by 41-year-old Jason G.

5 days ago | al.com | Carol Robinson

Authorities are asking for the public’s help identifying the suspect in a deadly Montgomery shooting. Police and fire medics were dispatched at 5 a.m. Thursday to the 5700 block of Atlanta Highway on a report of a person shot. That area is near the Chevron gas station. Lt. David Wise said the victim was pronounced dead on the scene. The victim, whose identity has not yet been released, is the city’s 24th homicide this year.

5 days ago | al.com | Carol Robinson

An 86-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday in Shelby County. Alabama State Troopers on Friday identified the victim as Adrienne N. Holderby. She lived in Chelsea. The wreck happened at 1:45 p.m. on U.S. 280 in Chelsea. Senior Trooper Vu Quang said Holderby was driving a Honda Accord that was struck by a GMC Sierra 2500 driven by 54-year-old Thomas D. Hopkins of Wilsonville. Holderby was pronounced dead on the scene. The investigation is ongoing by troopers.

5 days ago | al.com | Carol Robinson

Two inmates at William Donaldson Correction Facility died this week, one after a lengthy hospitalization. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the inmates as Jerome Lamont Reed, 38, and Marcus Bernard Palmer, 60. Reed was found unresponsive in his single-person cell at 6:14 p.m. Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at the prison at 7:15 p.m. Deputy Coroner Matt Angelo said an autopsy performed Thursday showed no evidence of foul play or trauma.