62 year old John Williams, a veteran Sheriff of Lowndes County responded to a loud music call Saturday at a QV gas station in Hayneville, AL. As he approached the side of a pickup truck & asked them to turn their music down, he was shot & killed. A manhunt ensued, but it wasn’t until hours later when 18 year old William Chase Johnson returned to the gas station, gun in hand, to turn himself in.
Johnson also had brass knuckles & alcohol in his possession. He’s the son of an unnamed sheriff deputy in neighboring Montgomery County. Johnson appeared in court Monday on charges of murder, appearing in front of Crenshaw County Circle Judge Tom Sport. The court’s usual judge, Lowndes County Circut District Judge Adrian Johnson, but he recused himself due to his close relationship with the fallen sheriff.
The QV store co-owner Sandy Harrell told reporters this will be a hard one to get over. She’s known the sheriff for more than 5 decades & everyone looked up to him.
According to @washingtonpost, one of Sheriff Williams career highlights was arresting former #BlackPanther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin or H. Rap Brown who’s convicted of killing a Fulton County deputy & injuring another in Atlanta in 2000.
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