Suspect killed in Ozark standoff identified
OZARK, Ala (WDHN) — A man shot by law enforcement during an Ozark standoff has been identified.
Dale County Coroner John Cawley identified the victim as 47-year-old Boyd Phillips of Ozark.
Cawley told WDHN that Phillips was fatally injured during a standoff with authorities in Ozark Monday afternoon.
According to Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, at around 10:40 a.m., Boyd threatened several people at an Ozark bank with a knife before running out and getting in a car, a prompting highway patrol trooper to give chase.
Trooper Kendra McKinney says the chase ended in the 100 block of Hub Street in Ozark and Boyd barricaded himself inside a home.
McKinney tells WDHN that Boyd was shot by Alabama Law Enforcement Agency SWAT members during the standoff.
Investigators have not said why they opened fire on Boyd.
Boyd was later pronounced dead at the Dale Medical Center, and his body was sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery for an autopsy.
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