This story has been corrected Stubbs is 18 years old. She was hospitalized but no additional information was available. The shots were fired from outside, killing the officer and wounding the other person inside the residence at Selma Square Apartments, Attorney General Steve Marshall said.Īuthorities have not released the name of the woman who was shot. Moorer was on duty and went home for lunch early Tuesday at an apartment complex where he lived when he was shot, authorities said. Officials didn’t provide any details about the arrest or shooting, and a possible motive isn’t clear. An Alabama police officer was shot to death early Tuesday and a woman was wounded in what a prosecutor described as an ambush. The consequence is that within 24 hours there was an arrest,” Perkins told a news conference. “The state stepped up and did exactly what was supposed to be done. credited members of the public for sharing information with law enforcement and the State Bureau of Investigation with its handling of the case.
Jackson said Stubbs previously was a star football player at Selma High School. He was taken to the jail in rural Chilton County and is set for a hearing Friday morning in Selma, he said.Ĭourt records weren’t immediately available to show whether Stubbs had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf. Stubbs was charged with capital murder and attempted murder following his arrest at apartments in Tuscaloosa, Jackson said. Javonte Stubbs, 18, was arrested overnight in the death of Selma Police Officer Marquis Moorer and the wounding of Moorer’s female companion, Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson said. (AP) - A man sought in the killing of an Alabama police officer who was gunned down in an ambush while taking a lunch break has been arrested, authorities said Wednesday. Kelvin Croom played football for the University of Alabama in the 1970s.SELMA, Ala. Kelvin Croom, now the senior pastor at the city’s College Hill Baptist Church, the Tuscaloosa News reported. But we have great lasting memories of Officer Croom,” said Meridian Police Chief Deborah NaylorYoung.Ĭroom was the son of former Tuscaloosa City Clerk Tracy Croom and the Rev. From the smile, the jokes he made with all the officers. “It didn’t matter where he landed, he always cared for the citizens.” “Each community that he worked in, Croom took that community as if it was his own,” said Jackson Police Department Cpl. He worked at sheriff’s departments in Hinds and Lauderdale counties and police departments in Brookhaven and Jackson, the Meridian Star reported. “It was an honor to place officer Croom’s cuffs on that subject and assist Croom in making his final arrest,” Smith said.īefore working in Meridian, Croom had been a law enforcement officer in Tuscaloosa and at agencies in Mississippi. Tavaras Smith said officers “worked nonstop” until they found and arrested Bender. Her fiance, former Newton, Miss., police officer Dante Marquez Bender, was arrested June 10 in Ackerman, Miss., about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Meridian. WBRC-TV reported that mourners packed the gym at Shelton State Community College.Ĭroom, 30, was killed while responding to a call where a woman, Brittany Jones, was shot to death. He was supposed to be off work that day.Ī funeral took place Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where Croom grew up. (AP) – A police officer killed on duty in Mississippi earlier this month is being remembered there and in his Alabama hometown as a person willing to serve any community where he worked.Ī memorial service was held Thursday in Meridian, Miss., for Meridian Police Officer Kennis Croom, who was shot to death June 9 while responding to a domestic violence call in that city.
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