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Selma Times -Journal Inside From Sportsplex: Sports the 1B Selma Memorial Tipoff: IB Braves beat Phillies: IB Girls softball action MAY 30, 2004 SERVING SINCE 1827 $1.50 No bond for shootout suspects BY TRACIE TROHA Times-Journal Writer Two suspects charged in connection to the Wednesday afternoon shooting along Alabama Avenue and Broad Street are being held without bond in the Dallas County Jail until a court hearing in June. During their bond hearing Friday morning, District Judge Nathaniel Walker ruled 19-year-old Jerron Stallworth and 17-year-old Corey Cooper must stay in jail until a second hearing scheduled for June 9. Both Stallworth and Father kills son, then self BY TRACIE TROHA Times-Journal Writer Investigators with the Dallas County Sheriff's Department found the bodies of two men in what is believed to be a near a residence just off County Road 993. Sheriff Harris Huffman said someone called 911, shortly after 7 a.m. Friday claiming a suicide may have occurred at the home of 75-year-old Carl Price.

"When I arrived on the scene, I found a Ford Bronco backed into the Huffman said. "It looked as if it hit a tree at a high rate of speed." Inside the vehicle, Huffman discovered the body of 40- year-old Thomas Price, who appeared to have been shot in the torso. Shortly thereafter, investigators found the body of Carl Price in the living room of his home at 67 County Road 993. He apparently died of a selfinflected gunshot wound to the head. According to Huffman, investigators believe Thomas visited the home of his father early Friday morning and confrontation ensued.

"Shots were fired, and it looked as if Thomas fled the home and tried to drive for help," Huffman said. "He lost Please See DEATH Page 5A Cooper are each charged with two counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle and shooting into an occupied building. According to the police MORE ON Court Proceedings: Fugitive returns to 3A report, three stray bullets from Wednesday's shooting spree entered Pilcher-McBryde Drug Store and one bullet entered The -Times Journal building. Brandon Lewis, an 18-yearold passenger in one of the two vehicles involved in the shooting, was shot in the calf and taken to Vaughan Regional Medical Center for treatment. He was the only person injured during the incident.

Stallworth and Cooper are currently on probation for previous offenses. In this recent case, Stallworth and Cooper are accused of exchanging gunfire with two other suspects driving a gold Caprice. So far, there have been no other arrests made in this case, but police believe they will have the other suspects in custody soon. Neither Stallworth or Cooper made any comments in court when Walker asked them if they had something to say. After his hearing before the judge, Stallworth was ejected from the courtroom for making a derogatory comment towards a Selma Police detective while court was still in session.

Another unidentified person was also asked to leave the Please See BOND Page 7A Crime Punishment violent crime, it's only a matter of "I try to address time. area," he said. "We On June 1, the citizens of the serious with crime; it Black Belt, Dallas County and us. In some neighborhoods, Selma will go to the polls and elect crime is a nightmare. a district attorney, a district judge, some people that don't a circuit court judge and several you or me and those are other key positions.

The candipeople that need to be ed. BY JOHN GULLION Wiggins' Times-Journal News Editor dates opponent, forchosen this year will be charged mer district and circuit court judge Editor's Note: This is the secwith leading the effort to stop the Farrell McKelvey-Wright, ond in a two-part series that began at crime in wave of violence. sentencing believes hasn't been last Sunday looking Circuit Court Judge Marvin swift or tough enough, but she Selma with the politicians in the acknowledges it will take more June 1 Primary. than stiff penalties to curb some of A Selma's shootout busiest erupted streets on in one broad of Primary the violence. "I think if we show we're sindaylight as horrified citizens ran cere about law enforcement, it will for cover Wednesday afternoon.

make a difference Despite the volley of shots, no ple," she said. "I think there are Election 2004 with some peobystanders were Wiggins says the time has come certain types of crime, it innocent hurt. doesn't Still, at the rate Selma is enduring for action. what the law is. A crime of matter it in every passion is going to be committed have to get no matter how severe the penalty affects all of might be." violent As McKelvey-Wright acknowlThere are edges, stiffer sentencing alone care about the type of Please See CRIME Page 5A incarcerat- Times-Journal Tracie Troha Corey Cooper and Jarron Stallworth return to the Dallas County Jail after their bond hearing Friday.

Industrial explosion injures two BY STEVEN JONES Times-Journal Writer A furnace at Globe Metallurgical exploded at approximately 2:15 p.m. Friday, injuring two employees and causing a possible investigation. Tony Bradley and Arthur Thicklin where both injured when an approximately 16 feet tall furnace exploded, sending a cloud of dust through the building. Bradley was transported to UAB, where he was last listed in critical condition. "We do not know his current condition," a company spokesperson: said.

Thicklin is expected to return to work on Monday. An employee at Globe who declined to be named, said the incident in under investigation. A third employee was injured in an unrelated incident, according to the employee. Fred Swank, plant manager and company representative, couldn't be reached for comment. Globe Metallurgical produces silicon and ferrosilicon alloys.

Thicklin said the explosion happened so fast, he wasn't sure what happened. "Only thing I knew is the thing exploded," Thicklin said. "I just remembered I heard a big explosion." According to Thicklin, when the furnace exploded, it sent a cloud of dust throughout the plant, limiting vision. "It sounded like a bomb," Thicklin said. "When that thing exploded, everything was just dark." Thicklin is one of the workers that maintain the furnace.

He burned his shoulder, but he said he'd be returning to work Monday. "I didn't get injured that bad," Thicklin said. Thicklin was a little shook up, but he's since recovered. "I'm not really nervous about it," Thicklin said. "Right now I'm just good to go.

What's going to happen is going to happen anyway." General Services Selma graduate achieves dream BY TRACIE TROHA Times-Journal Writer Among the many seniors graduating from Selma High School this Friday evening, there is one woman who will stood out above the rest. Tammy Suttles, a 25-year-old mother of a young son, donned the cap and gown that has been hanging in her closet for the past six years and walked with the Class of 2004 to receive her high school diploma. What's Inside Weather Obituaries Police Reports Around Alabama Opinion Sports 18 Weather Lifestyles Clouds and Weddings sun with atClassileds 4C storm in spots. 54108 012501 For the past week, Suttles been prepared for the big moment when family and friends finally got to see the diploma placed into her hands. "I have been putting on my gown every night and practicing my walk, making sure I'm not walking too fast or slow," Suttles said.

"I'm ready. I just hope I don't pass out. This has truly been a blessing for me." Suttles, a former student at Selma High, missed her chance to graduate back in 1998 after failing the math portion of the Alabama High School Graduating Exam by one point. Despite pleadings from her mother and boyfriend, Suttles never bothered to go back and take the test again. "I started pursuing a career in cosmetology," Suttles said.

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