Congregants returned to Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, on Sunday, just days after a 70-year-old former gun dealer murdered three of their number during a monthly “Boomer’s Potluck” dinner in the parish hall. The church’s rector, the Rev. John Burress, was in Greece at the time of the shooting but returned to …
A 70-year-old licensed firearms dealer has been charged with three counts of capital murder in a shooting Thursday evening at an Alabama church potluck. Walter Bartlett Rainey, 84, was pronounced dead at the scene at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, southeast of Birmingham. Sarah Yeager, 75, and Jane Pounds, 84, were taken to …
A 71-year-old man opened fire at an Alabama church potluck Thursday night, killing two people and wounding another. Vestavia Hills Police Captain Shane Ware said the man was “an occasional attendee” of Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, where the shooting took place shortly after 6 p.m. Ware identified the dead as 84-year-old Walter Rainey and 75-year-old …
A 25-year-old Alabama woman was found dead in her Hoover apartment Saturday morning after a family member checked on her when she failed to show for work on Friday. Police later arrested a suspect in Fultondale after a brief chase that also included an auto accident involving a police vehicle and an unrelated motorist, AL.com …
A 27-year-old Alabama woman last seen getting into a rideshare in June was found dead over the weekend in Birmingham. Jefferson County Coroner Bill Yates, who identified the skeletal remains using dental records, said that Angela Michelle Roberts’s cause of death may never be known. “When you have skeletal remains, it hampers our ability to …
An 8-week-old baby girl reporting missing on Sunday has been found safe, but a man she was believed to have been with has not been located. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered child alert of Zolliee Jean Standafer on behalf of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday. TBI updated their Facebook post …
An 8-week-old baby girl from Jefferson County, Tennessee, is missing and believed to be in the Corbin, Kentucky, area. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered child alert for Zolliee Jean Standafer on behalf of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Zolliee has a medical condition, TBI said, and may be with 37-year-old Travis Wayne …
Alabama deputies on Sunday rescued a 39-year-old woman on Sunday who said she had been held prison for 24 hours by a man who raped her, beat her repeatedly, and warned her he was going to make her dig her own grave. Joseph Ryan Byram, 37, has been jailed in Jefferson County on multiple charges. …
Law enforcement in Jefferson County, Alabama, is looking for a 16 year old girl who’s been missing since May 16. Alexus Grace Henderson is described at 5 feet 3 inches tall and 115 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said. She was last seen at about 9:45 p.m. on …
A 60-year-old Alabama man is dead after his longtime girlfriend repeatedly ran over him Saturday night with his own vehicle. Tomeka Sims, 46, has been charged with murder and is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on a $50,000 bond, according to AL.com. Sgt Joni Money told the outlet that deputies responded to 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 …
The suspect in the murder of a Colorado woman found dead in a Denver suburb was arrested more than half the state away the day after Lakewood police officers found the body, according to police. Police were called to a home in Lakewood’s Green Mountain neighborhood at about 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday on a report …
