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UPDATED @ 5:00 PM 1:24 PM HAPPENING NOW Child Hit By Car - Not Breathing Caller Has A Weapon

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Jul 27 2016 1:31 PM

HENRY COUNTY - DALE COUNTY:  1:24 PM   Emergency Units are responding to the scene of a accident in Henry County.


The accident scene is reported in the 6900 block of County Road 73 in the Newville area.


Reports are a child has been struck and not breathing. Power lines are reported down on the roadway.


Alabama Department of Law Enforcement - Troopers are responding, Henry County Sheriff Department and Dale County Sheriff Department responding as other emergency fire and medical units. We will update.


UPDATED @ 1:58 PM    


Updated that there is a confirmed fatality on the scene. Reports have changed the person killed is not a child but possibly in his 20's.


Power lines were down and caused a fire.


Some persons on the scene were reported to have had a gun and were making threats towards the driver of the vehicle. Some people who arrived on the scene right after the accident got the driver to a field and hid him in the weeds until law enforcement arrived.


Reports are two vehicle's were struck and a utility pole that knocked power lines down and caused a fire.


Multiple agencies from Dale and Henry County responded as did ALEA Troopers.


Henry County Coroner Derek Wright is also on the scene.


UPDATED @ 3:10 PM    


Henry County Coroner Derek Wright has identified the deceased as 15 year old Cody Ashton Jenkins.


Information is Jenkins was bringing in the garbage can. The vehicle left the roadway and struck the 15 year old and killed him.


There were no weapons actually pulled. A person threatened and another person said they had a weapon and there would be no guns.


Jenkins and his family lived on County Road 73 in Henry County.


UPDATED @ 4:42 PM   


Alabama Department of Law Enforcement Trooper Division have arrested Jeremy Terrill Carruthers and placed him in the Henry County Jail for murder. The charges stem from this accident where the 15 year old was killed in his yard and not on the side of the road like first reported.


UPDATED @ 5:15 PM with Press Release


DOTHAN POST – A single-vehicle crash at 1 p.m. today, July 27, has claimed the life of a Newville teen.  A 15-year-old was killed when a 2014 Chevrolet Impala driven by Jeremy Terrill Carruthers, 27, of Abbeville ran off the roadway and struck him in the teen's yard. The teen was pronounced dead at the scene by Henry County Coroner Derek Wright.  Carruthers, who was not injured,  was charged with Murder and transported to the Henry County Jail with a $500,000 bond.  The crash occurred on Henry County 73 three miles north of Headland.  Nothing further is available as Alabama State Troopers continue to investigate.





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