An arrest has been made in the shooting of five people in Tuskegee earlier this month. Police say 22-year-old Rishod Shermaine Fields of Tuskegee had been charged with four counts of attempted murder and may face additional charges. Three Tuskegee University students and two others were wounded during the incident at an off-campus party. Still now word on what sparked the shooting, but a verbal dispute is suspected. Fields has been placed in the Macon County jail under a $200,000 bond. All of the victims are expected to recover.
Life in Prison
A judge has sentenced a 25-year-old man to life in prison for killing two former Auburn University football players and another man during a shooting at an off-campus party. Lee County Judge Jacob Walker Tuesday upheld the jury's recommendation of life in prison without parole for Desmonte Leonard. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty. A jury convicted Leonard of capital murder in the 2012 shooting deaths of former Auburn football players Ed Christian and Ladarrious Phillips along with DeMario Pitts. Leonard told Walker that he was sorry for what happened and that no one deserved to die.
Finley Strategy
Montgomery's new Police Chief Ernest Finely plans to hit the ground running. The veteran law enforcement officer says he's eager to work with local, state and federal partners as he take the reigns at MPD. Finley says residents can expect a very open and cooperative police department.
Special Guest
A 103-year old voting rights activist who was beaten during an attempted march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma is attending the State of the Union address in Washington. Democratic U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell said in a release that she invited Amelia Boynton Robinson to Washington as her special guest for President Barack Obama's address Tuesday night. Sewell says Boynton's role in the march is captured in the "Selma," and she made history in 1964 as the first African-American in Alabama to run for Congress. Boynton said in a release that she feels a special bond with Sewell, who is the state's first elected African-American congresswoman. Sewell says Boynton paved the way for her achievements.