An Alabama woman charged with killing a 52-year-old grandmother while street racing was arrested early Wednesday morning in Atlanta after her bond was revoked in Birmingham. Carmesia Flannigan, 22, posted a pair of profanity-laced Facebook live videos in which she blamed the victim, home healthcare worker Brandy Ballard. Ballard had just left home on her …
An ex-teacher in Alabama admitted in court on Monday to having sex with two teen students. Decatur Daily reported that Carrie Witt, 46, pleaded guilty to engaging in a sex act with a student younger than 19. Witt, a Decatur High School teacher, was arrested in March 2016 for having a sexual relationship with a …
A 22-year-old Alabama woman, charged with hitting a another car head-on while street racing and killing the driver, released a livestreamed a profanity-laced video on Facebook denying responsibility for the crash and instead blaming the 52-year-old grandmother who was behind the wheel of the other vehicle. Carmesia Flannigan has been charged with murder, leaving the …
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has added $5,000 from the state to the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting death of Birmingham toddler Major Turner earlier this month, WIAT reports. The 2-year-old was lying on the couch with his mother in the evening of February 4 when someone fired nearly …
Two men were charged with murder Wednesday in the death of an Alabama teen last September in Auburn. Marcus Okeef Wigley, 35, and Tahara Jaquay Brunson, 41, were already charged with kidnapping 18-year-old Thomas Anthony Green early in the morning on September 5, 2020, along with Timez Williams, . Green’s body was found five days …
An Alabama man has been jailed after witnesses said he intentionally hit his pregnant wife with a car, Tuscaloosa News reports. Canaan Johnson, 22, was charged with kidnapping and attempted murder and is being held on a $180,000 bail. Johnson’s 23-year-old wife was taken to DCH Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, Tuscaloosa Police …
An Alabama judge on Monday sentenced he husband of online exhibitionist Kat West to 16 years in prison for her death, AL.com reports. Jeff West, 47, will receive credit for the nearly three years he’s already served since being arrested for his wife’s January 12, 2018, death. He has maintained his innocence throughout — contending …
A pair of Alabama teens was arrested Saturday night and charged with the murder of a 21-year-man found dead early Saturday morning. Mary Cheyenne Butler, 18, and Selena Grace Tisdale, 19, were booked into the Mobile County Metro Jail on felony murder charges at about 7 p.m., Fox 10 reports. Investigators said that Bradley Nall …
Police in Alabama recently released dashcam footage showing last year’s deadly crash that involved an 18-wheeler truck falling off an exit ramp. According to AL.com, commercial truck driver Charles Pearce Jr., 59, was killed in Birmingham on October 6 when a silver sedan and a white Nissan Cube collided on the Interstate 65 and Interstate …
An Alabama grand jury has indicted a former Birmingham detective in a “love triangle” shooting last April that left another woman dead. Alfreda Fluker, 40, has been charged with capitol murder for the death of 43-year-old Kanisha Nicole Fuller and the attempted murder of Mario Theodore White, Fluker’s partner on the Birmingham Police Department’s Crime …
A south Alabama father and son shot each other to death over the weekend in a dispute after the son allegedly killed the father’s dog, Fox10 News reports. Nicholas Coker, 32, shot at four of the family’s dogs, killing two of the them, Saturday afternoon when one of the dogs reportedly “started messing” with his …
Joshua Burks was initially charged with reckless manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Troy Ellis last May, but this month a grand jury upgraded the charges.
