An Alabama mother wanted in the death of her son in March was found dead last week in Texas. The medical examiner of the Southwestern Institute of Forensics Science in Dallas, Texas, told detectives in Alabama that 53-year-old Serena Starkey died on June 21, WVTM reported. Foul play is not suspected, but cause and manner …
A 34-year-old Alabama man has been arrested and charged with robbing and sodomizing two elderly women in their home. The Florence Police Department said it was called to a home on a burglary call late Saturday afternoon and found the two victims inside with multiple injuries. Officers provided first aid until the arrival of Florence …
A 27-year-old Alabama man has been charged with capital murder in a deadly shooting that left his ex-girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter dead and her 5-year-old son wounded. Birmingham Police said that Otis Lee Montgomery III has also been charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied building, WBMA reported. Investigators say Montgomery fired …
A two-day manhunt for a man suspected in three murders in Oklahoma and another in Alabama ended on Thursday with Stacy Lee Drake’s arrest in Arkansas. The hunt for Drake began early Tuesday evening in Oklahoma when Sequoyah County deputies responded to a report that two people were dead at a business in Gans, KOCO …
A 13-year-old Alabama boy who was found dead at an extended stay hotel in March died from malnutrition and dehydration, complicated by neglect. Shelby County Coroner Linda Evans contacted Birmingham police on June 6 and told them that she had classified Aston Starkey’s death a homicide, AL.com reported. Birmingham Fire and Rescue responded to Extended …
Three people were shot and killed Tuesday night at a small, Hispanic-owned grocery store in Alabama. The victims were identified as Daniel Lopez, 20, and Romero Lopez, 43 — the nephew and brother of Maribel Lopez, who identified herself to WSFA as an owner of Tienda Los Hermanos grocery store — and 50-year-old George Elijah …
A 33-year-old Alabama man accused of raping and sodomizing a young girl texted his girlfriend while he was on the run to blame the 8-year-old child for enticing him. Colt Bryan Lecuyer appeared before a judge in Dale County on Tuesday on the charges, WDHN reported. Judge Stanley Garner is mulling whether to grant bond. …
A South Alabama man is behind bars, charged with rape and sodomy of a child under the age of 10, after eluding police for two days. The Dale County Sheriff’s Office said that Colt Bryan Lecuyer, 33, was already a registered sex offender when a witness called 911 on Friday to report having seen Lecuyer …
A shoot-out at an Alabama gas station Saturday night left one woman dead and another wounded and charged with murder. Tuscalossa police said they were called to the station just after 10:30 p.m. and found two women suffering from gunshot wounds, WBRC reported. Both were taken to the hospital, where Lashonda Leigh Street, 46, died. …
A missing Alabama woman was found dead in the woods in Dadeville on Thursday, and her boyfriend has been charged with her murder. Quanisha Davis, 30, was reported missing on Friday but was last seen on May 17, WRBL reported. Davis’s white 2006 Ford Explorer was found early Wednesday evening in a wooded area on …
A Alabama woman was found dead on a front porch Tuesday afternoon in Birmingham’s Inglenook neighborhood, and police say her body had been there for a couple of days. “This did not just happen,’’ Officer Truman Fitzgerald told AL.com. Fitzgerald said the death was being investigated as a murder after “officers observed signs of trauma …
Three Alabama sisters were arrested last week in a murder-for hire plot to kill the husband of one of their daughters. Mitzy Gaye Smith, 54, Judy Owen, 61, and Sandra Grimes, 57, face federal charges in the plot, which saw them hiring a convicted felon to kill Grimes’ son-in-law, who she accused of abusing her …
