Man's death deemed Montgomery's first homicide for the year
Montgomery recorded its first homicide for 2022 the afternoon of New Year's Day.
At about 3:11 p.m. police and fire medics went to Mobile Road near Beecher Street on a person shot call, said Lt. Jarrett Williams, a spokesman for the Montgomery Police Department.. A man had a life threatening gunshot wound and was pronounced dead on scene, he said. The man's name was not released.
The case is being treated as a homicide, he said. No arrest had been made by 6 p.m. Saturday.
There is no additional information available about the investigation.
The homicide was the fifth shooting Montgomery police investigated on the holiday. Four other people received non-life threatening injuries in the prior unrelated shootings
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Marty Roney at mroney@gannett.com.
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