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Fight leads to charges
A fight at a south Huntsville restaurant Monday led to two men facing charges of kidnapping and robbery.
Police said Jonathan Burrell, 24, and Joel Riggs, 25, started a fight with Ryan Prince Monday evening at Baumhowers at 4250 Balmoral Drive.
The men then pushed Prince, 20, into his own car and drove away.
Police found the car [...]
Gas station robbed in south Huntsville
A gas station clerk was robbed late Monday in south Huntsville.
Police said a man robbed the Fuel City at 8511 Whitesburg Drive around 9 p.m.
Other reports say the clerk, Garry McKinney, had gone outside to smoke when he was accosted by a man dressed in camouflage.
The man was armed with a pistol and fled the [...]
Motorcyclist killed in south Huntsville crash
A man was killed late Monday when his motorcycle collided with a car on South Memorial Parkway.
Police said Taylor Alexander Gordon, no age or hometown listed, was headed north on the Parkway when a car turned left in front of him.
Gordon’s cycle struck the car in the side and he was pronounced dead at the [...]
Exclusive: Fire destroys apartment building
Fire consumes a building at a south Huntsville apartment complex Monday afternoon. Residents of Brittany point were forced out after the blaze broke out before 2 p.m.
Fire consumes south Huntsville apartments
A fast moving fire has consumed several apartments in a complex off Willowbrook Road near Bailey Cove Road in south Huntsville.
The fire was reported just before 2 p.m. at Brittany Point Apartments in the 900 block and required multiple engine companies to respond.
There were thought to be no injuries however one resident said firefighters were [...]
Weekend public safety roundup
The following incidents were reported by law enforcement from Friday through early Monday:
A man is in critical condition after he was injured in a car crash early Sunday.
Police said Logan Brannon was driving his Pontiac Firebird westbound on Bob Wade Lane around 1:30 a.m. when he left the road and hit a utility pole near [...]
Police ID names of victims in SWAT standoff
Huntsville police have released the names of three people involved in a violent standoff Saturday in which two of them died and another was critically injured.
In a release late Saturday police identified the deceased as Brandon Lee Titsworth and Ashley Leann Spangler while the injured person was identified as Briana Perkey.
A woman called police to [...]
HPD spokesman briefs media on end of standoff
Huntsville Police Department spokesperson Harry Hobbs talks about the standoff Saturday in which two people died and another was critically injured.
UPDATE: Standoff ends with two dead, one critical; two children safe
A 5-hour standoff between police and an armed man ended shortly after noon when a SWAT team stormed a home in west Huntsville and found two people dead and one critically injured.
According to a police spokesman officers entered the home in the 200 block of Mountain Creek Drive in the Knox Creek Subdivision and found [...]
Police in standoff with armed man
Huntsville police are currently negotiating with an armed man in what I they have referred to as a volatile situation in west Huntsville.
A spokesman said police were called to the Knox Creek subdivision off Balch Road around 7:30 a.m
He added police were told that a domestic situation was taking place.
Details were scarce and media were [...]
