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• ALABAMA OFFICER AMBUSHED DRIVER

Other departments also offered condolences to the Mount Vernon community. “We are also praying for the Mount Vernon community during this time of loss,” Stringer said in a Facebook post. State Rep. Shane Stringer offered prayers for Lopez’s family, friends and coworkers. Brad Johnson, a Bibb County deputy, was shot and killed days later. J’Mar Abel, a Chambers County deputy, died in an on-duty crash in June. Five of those deaths are attributed to COVID-19. The attorney general’s office said Lopez is the ninth Alabama law enforcement officer killed this year. “Luckily no responders were injured,” says a post on the fire department’s Facebook page.

ALABAMA OFFICER AMBUSHED DRIVER

That driver went to a hospital by helicopter. A speeding vehicle crashed as crews worked in the area, according to the department. The Summerdale Fire Department reported a second crash at the scene where the officer died. Marshall said Lopez was about to end his shift and traveling home in his police vehicle. Officer Moorer was reportedly ambushed in his apartment when he went home for his meal break. The crash happened just after 7 p.m. on Alabama Highway 59 in Summerdale in neighboring Baldwin County. Summerdale police Chief Kevin Brock told news reporters at the scene that the officer was driving home when a pickup truck sped through a stop sign and hit his vehicle. Javonte Cornuis Stubbs, 18, is being held in the Chilton County Jail on counts of capital murder of a police officer and attempted murder of the woman, AL.com reports. “I join all Alabama law enforcement in mourning the loss of Officer Lopez and in offering condolences to his family and colleagues,” said Steve Marshall, the state attorney general, in a press release on Tuesday afternoon Officer Ivan Lopez worked for the police department in Mount Vernon, a town of about 1,300 people in Mobile County. Harris said.A police officer in south Alabama died in a crash on Monday evening, officials said. ''They're all the time out back doing drugs,'' Mr. Herman Harris, who said he lived in the area, said the house had a reputation as a ''crack house.'' Woods and others were in custody, dozens of officers wearing body armor and carrying shotguns or rifles swarmed around the house and went door to door in the neighborhood, apparently searching for suspects or witnesses. Investigators, using string to reconstruct the trajectories of the bullets, mapped out paths between a police car and an older model gray vehicle.īefore the sheriff announced that Mr. The police searched a vacant lot next to the house for evidence. In the hours afterward, two police cars were towed from the scene, and it appeared that a window of one had been shot out. The incident began at approximately 7:30 p.m. The shooting occurred in a neighborhood of modest older houses. Birmingham, AL A veteran Birmingham police officer was shot in the line of duty while responding to a robbery call on Wednesday night. Gunfire erupted shortly after the officers arrived at the house at 1:19 p.m., she said. According to Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson, Moorer was. The fourth officer who went with the men to make the arrest was not hurt, Chief Nunn said. The shooting happened Tuesday morning at Selma Square Apartments, located a short distance from Citizens Parkway.

Officer Chisholm was hired in 1998, and Officer Bennett had been on the force since 2001. A city spokesman, Brett Oates, identified the officers who were killed as Harley Chisholm III, 40 Charles Robert Bennett, 33 and Carlos Owen, 53, who had been on the force for 26 years.