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Execution set for Moody, state’s oldest Death Row inmate
The execution of 81-year-old Walter Leroy Moody Jr., the oldest inmate on Alabama’s Death Row, is set for 6 p.m. next Thursday, April 19, at William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore. Moody, convicted of the 1989 pipe-bombing death of federal appeals judge Robert S. Vance, had asked to represent himself at his capital murder trial, but asked for a 12- to 18-month continuance so he could hire two lawyers…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Deer causes 6 cars to hit I-65 guardrail
A deer that was trying to cross Interstate 65 in the predawn hours of March 30 triggered a bizarre incident during which a vehicle struck a guardrail, tore it loose and sent it across two lanes of traffic, where five other vehicles ran over or struck the twisted piece of metal. According to Alabama State Trooper reports, the chain of relatively minor accidents started around 5:48 a.m. when 79-year-old William…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Hydroplane
Two local men were taken by ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital after a March 29 single-vehicle crash on Northgate Drive. Alabama State Trooper reports show that Tykentrenton Kadeem Grubbs, 27, of Atmore was eastbound in a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria when “the vehicle entered into a critical speed yaw while running off of the roadway.” The car struck a water main, a telephone junction box and several trees, injuring Grubbs…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Atmore man injured in fatal boat collision
A popular Pace, Fla. bass fisherman was killed, a Semmes man was seriously injured, and an Atmore man escaped with only minor injuries after two bass boats collided March 31 during a fishing tournament on the Tensaw River in Baldwin County. According to a press release issued by Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, a bass boat operated by Wesley Scott Feely of Atmore struck the side of a bass boat operated…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
‘Like a hurricane’ – Shooting drastically changed lives of teen victim, family
Trent Atchison’s life, as well as that of his family, underwent a drastic change on February 27. The 17-year-old Escambia County High School junior was standing with a group of friends at a home his mother owns on Fourth Street, laughing and talking about the things teenagers laugh about and talk about, when a classmate pulled up, got out of a car and fired several shots into the crowd. Seconds…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago