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Defense offers different story in May Day mass shooting: ‘He did not shoot and kill those two people’
The last of three suspects charged with murder in the May Day shooting in Stockton where 19 people were shot and three died was back in court Thursday for an Aniah's law and preliminary hearing and a different story on what happened that night.
UPDATE: Driver being treated for serious injuries after Bayway crash
UPDATE (6:10 p.m.): News 5 is gathering more information about a crash that happened on I-10 Thursday afternoon. According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the two-vehicle crash happened at 2:55 p.m. on the I-10 Bayway. The driver of a 2009 Toyota Venza was seriously injured when the vehicle hit a 2019 Isuzu box truck, […]
Dramatic rescue on I-65: Woman survives after car gets trapped under tanker truck
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Mobile Fire-Rescue Department units were dispatched at about 7:56 a.m. Friday to the northbound lanes of I-65 north of I-10 and south of Government Boulevard for multiple calls about a vehicle trapped under a tanker Friday morning, July 19, 2024. Units from MFRD, including Rescue...
Car hits, kills man near Highway 90, Mobile police say
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A man was killed after he was hit by a car early Friday morning, according to the Mobile Police Department. An MPD news release said officers were called to the area of westbound Highway 90 around 5:30 a.m. on July 19 after they received a report of a pedestrian being hit […]
Case against last Stockton mass shooting murder suspect bound over to Grand Jury
BAY MINETTE, Ala. (WALA) - New information coming out in court Tuesday, July 18, 2024 about the mass shooting in Stockton, back in May where nearly 20 people were shot, three losing their lives. The third murder suspect appeared in a Baldwin County court Tuesday. Robert Brown. Jr. is accused of shooting and killing two people and wounding a third.
Firefighting agencies respond to Elberta home fire
BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — Multiple firefighting units responded to a house fire in Baldwin County Friday morning, News 5 has learned. The fire, which neighbors called in around 8:15 a.m., occurred at a home on Stucki Road in Elberta. LOCATION: Fire departments from Elberta, Lillian, Josephine, Perdido Beach, Summerdale, and Foley responded to the […]
‘Overdue for law enforcement’: Alabama agency seeks mandatory mental health sessions for police
Ashlee Cote had to readjust her own life on a tragic day in 2009, when her then 20-year-old husband died in a helicopter crash in Iraq. “The tragedy showed me that I needed to take care of myself … so I could take care of my family,” said Cote, who met her husband – Army Spc. Michael Cote Jr. — while the two were in basic training. They married and had a daughter, Brooke, who was six months old at the time of her father’s death.
UPDATE: Baldwin County deputies say counterfeit Apple operation was ‘sophisticated’
A traffic stop in Baldwin County leads to the discovery of a multi-state counterfeiting operation with ties to China. Two men from Malaysia are now in the Baldwin County Jail after investigators find dozens of fake Apple products.
2 people arrested after traffic stop leads to finding ‘substantial amount’ of drugs: GCSO
GEORGE COUNTY, Miss. (WKRG) — Two people were arrested Saturday after a traffic stop led deputies to find “a substantial amount of narcotics,” according to the George County Sheriff’s Office. 53-year-old Lasean Bryant of Lucedale was arrested after the traffic stop and charged with trafficking a controlled substance, according to officials. He was given a […]
Mobile man previously charged with murder not indicted by grand jury
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile man previously charged with murder will not go to trial after a grand jury chose not to indict him, according to court documents. 20-year-old Alvin Bernard Adams was accused of involvement in the shooting death of 45-year-old Jamel Pendleton, which happened on Jan. 27, 2023. Pendleton was shot multiple […]
Mobile Police investigating gunshots into multiple vehicles
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Officers with the Mobile Police Department are investigating after multiple vehicles were shot into early Wednesday morning. According to an MPD news release, officers were called to the 200 block of 1st Court around 1 a.m. on July 17 for a report of shots fired. LOCATION: When they arrived, officers found […]
Mobile Police arrest man after chase: MPD
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Officers with the Mobile Police Department have arrested a man they said led them on a chase Wednesday night. 24-year-old Javon Cleon Davis was arrested and charged with felony attempt to elude and first-degree possession of marijuana. Around 10 p.m. on July 17, officers tried to stop a vehicle in the […]
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