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UPDATED at 11:38 PM... Shots Fire at Downtown Library

Matt Boster - Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: Matt Boster
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Date: Jul 13 2019 12:55 PM

DOTHAN: At 12:47 PM.. Dothan Police are out at the Downtown library with reports are shots fired. Police have four people detained and looking for an older black male with a green shirt and a walking cane in the area.  


Police have a perimeter set up two blocks north and south of the library. So far no firearm has been located. Officers heard the shots and called out on the radio. 


UPDATED @1:05 PM


The police have located the male and are breaking down the perimeter.  Some shell casings were located outside the library.  


UPDATED @ 1:10 PM


Police have just advised they have located the firearm.  Police are investigating the incident. 


UPDATED @ 11:38 PM    


Dothan Police Patrol Division called Investigator Terry Nelson out to Burdeshaw Street near Alice Street intersection to investigate a case of Intimidating A Witness.


Dothan Police had encountered a case where a witness was being threatened if he cooperated with Dothan Police in the robbery case. The residence the police were at faced Bursdeshaw Street between Alice and Lena Street.


In a totally different case, a man was sitting inside the iron fence on a park bench at the Library in downtown Dothan.


A man who was assaulted or involved in an altercation the day before with the man on the bench walked by seeing the man on the bench. The victim of the assault the day before returned and is alleged to have told the man on the bench that he told him that he would find him. Then he opened fire on the man sitting on the bench.


When the shots fired the man on the bench bolted from inside the iron fence running directly across the street between houses to escape the man firing the gun. The shooter went around on Bursdeshaw Street from Alice in an apparent attempt to cut the man he was shooting at off.


What neither knew, Dothan Police were already on the scene and both the suspect and victim ran directly to the police.


Now when the shots fired off Dothan Police thought the shots might be aimed towards them. So the Dothan Officers grabbed this high powered artillery very quick. The situation was brought "under control" quickly but could have grown "out of control" quickly with police being placed in a split second decision of using deadly physical force.


So the hours of training conducted by law enforcement on a daily basis really paid off today.



GREAT JOB to the squad on duty.




UPDATED  at  11:38 PM... Shots Fire at Downtown Library

UPDATED  at  11:38 PM... Shots Fire at Downtown Library

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