UPDATED @ 1:30 PM With MORE SPECIFIC DETAILS BREAKING NEWS; Another Henry County Murder - Sheriff - Police On Scene

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Feb 05 2012 12:28 AM

HENRY COUNTY:   At this time Henry County Sheriff Will Maddox, Henry County Coroner Derek Wright, Headland Police, Henry County - Abbeville Task Force members, Dothan Police are on the scene of a murder.

We reported earlier that Dothan Police had recovered a vehicle in Dothan at Tacoma Street and Bell Street that could possibly lead to something bigger. The vehicle contained a weapon and had blood in the vehicle.

At the time Dothan Police had criminal investigators on the scene and called in Headland Police and Investigators with Headland Police and Henry County - Abbeville Task Force Investigators. Through investigation the investigators identified there was a body dumped on County Road 206 near Tumbleton way back in a field.

At this time the multi officers and agencies have recovered the body and are on the scene.

Preliminary reports are the person was taken from Davenport Street in Headland and was shot and killed. THe body was disposed of in Tumbleton.

Subjects are being questioned. Suspects are known.

This is a joint investigation between Dothan Police, Henry County Sheriff Department, Headland Police and Henry County - Abbeville Task Force.

As more information becomes available we will update. Regional Land and Water Rescue members had been on stand by to assist in the search of the body if it had not been located tonight.

Matt Boster covered the scene in Dothan.

UPDATED @ 7:07 AM

Our information is Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd has now been brought into the case. While the body was found in Henry County in Tumbleton, as the investigators from multi agencies are conducting the investigation, we understand it now appears the murder might have occured in Dothan - Houston County and not in Henry County. Just the body dumped in Henry County.

Investigators have worked through the night working this case and continue this morning working and sorting through the details.

As we learn more we will update.

UPDATED @ 9:48 AM

The investigation continues. Dale County Sheriff helicopter units has been called into Tumbleton to do an aerial photo of the scene.

This case has taken many twists and turns. Agents from Alabama Bureau of Investigation are involved the case. Dothan Police is the lead agency at this time, per the instructions of Dothan - Houston County District Atoorney Doug Valeska, because it appears the initial chanin of events started in Dothan.

This is a multi agency investigation. A suspect has been identified.

AS to Davenport Street in Headland - at the beginning it appeared some of the chain event started on Davenposrt Street. At this time we HAVE NOT confirmed that. Investigators are working in details and this case has become very complex.

We will update as we know more. There is some additional information but I do not feel I can release at this time.

UPDATED @ 10:03 AM

Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd has identified the deceased as 24 year old Jarvis Daffin. Daffin is from West Palm Beach Florida but was living in Dothan and was employed at Church's Fried Chicken in Dothan.

As more information is avaialble we will update.

UPDATED @ 1:30 PM With More Specific Details

Late Saturday afternoon Dothan Police received information about a vehicle parked at the corner of Tacoma Street and Bell Street in Dothan. The vehicle contained a firearm and there was blood in the vehicle.

Dothan Police Patrol Division, under the command of Dothan Police Lt. Will Benny and Captain Keith Gray, began a preliminary investigation into the circumstances surrounding the vehicle, weapon and blood. Immediately a decision was made to call Dothan Police Criminal Investigators to the scene.

As the preliminary investigation information was being developed information surfaced that some of the possible criminal activities involved occurred in Headland and/or in Henry County. Investigators from Headland Police and Henry County Sheriff – Abbeville Police Task Force were called to the scene in Dothan.

The combined efforts of patrol and investigators developed information there had been a killing and the body was dumped in a wooded area in Henry County in the Tumbleton community.

As officers went to the Tumbleton community to begin to search for the body, preparations were also being made for search crews to begin early this morning.

The combined officers, to include Henry County Sheriff Will Maddox, searched the Tumbleton area and found the body in a wooded area. Agents from Alabama Bureau of Investigation, Captain Barry Tucker and Sgt. Tommy Merritt were also called into the investigation.

At the time the body was found Henry County Coroner Derek Wright was called into the investigation.

On the scene, as evidence was being recovered and additional information was being gathered, the investigators brought Houston – Henry County District Attorney Doug Valeska into the investigation. A decision was made, since the apparent chain of events had begin in Dothan, that Dothan Police Department should take the lead investigation role. The investigators continued to work hand in hand because all information has not been developed and this is a multi county, multi jurisdictional case at this time.

Since there is a question about where the person was killed at, Henry County Coroner Derek Wright notified Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd to respond to the scene, which he did.

Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson approved the dispatching of air support on Sunday to photograph the area from the air where the body was found.

At this time, the preliminary information is the victim received an income tax refund of $ 7,000.00, which was cashed at Chandler’s Check Cashing in Dothan. Initial investigation is the victim got into a vehicle with other subjects and traveled to the Tumbleton area to purchase a vehicle.

Information is as the victim and others were traveling to Henry County, one of the persons in the vehicle demanded the victim with the $ 7,000.00 pay him some $ 2,500.00 that he felt he was owed. When the victim refused, reports are the suspect pulled a firearm and shot the victim. Following the shooting the body was dumped in the Tumbleton area, and the suspect is reported to have taken all of the $ 7,000.00.

Some preliminary investigation information is the actual shooting death possibly took place near the Tumbleton area. However the investigation continues and the information is being compiled to all of the actual circumstances of where everything took place.

A suspect or suspects have been identified and officers are working to apprehend the suspect(s).

This case has been multi agency and multi jurisdictional. All agencies have been and are working together. They have made very cautious steps that all jurisdictions have been involved in the case where possible criminal activity has occurred.

The District Attorney of the county is not the Chief Law Enforcement Officer but the Chief Prosecutor for criminal cases. That is why the officers consulted him because the actual prosecution and what county to prosecute is his decision. The actual Chief Law Enforcement Officers are the Sheriff’s of the respective counties.

The body has been turned over to Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for autopsy and evidence collection.

As more information is available we will update.

 

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