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		</div><h6><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>Alabama deputy sheriff&#8217;s son, </strong></span><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>William Chase Johnson, </strong></span><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>is arrested for shooting dead the sheriff of a neighboring county &#8216;during a confrontation over loud music at a gas station&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>Sheriff John Williams of Lowndes County, Alabama, was shot and killed in the line of duty on Saturday evening </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>The sheriff died at around 8:15pm while responding to a call at a convenience store in Hayneville </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>William Chase Johnson, 18, son of a Montgomery deputy sheriff, has been arrested four hours after he sot an officer and fled the QV gas station in Hayneville<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>William Chase Johnson, had been sitting a stolen truck when the sheriff&#8217;s approached him </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #524040;"><strong>Witnesses said he then shot Sheriff Williams before fleeing the station on foot</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #524040;"><strong> Four hours later, gun in hand, Johnson walked back to the gas station and turned himself in</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-336896" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sheriff-John-Williams-left-and-William-Chase-Johnson-right-1.jpg" alt="Sheriff John Williams [left], and, William Chase Johnson, [right] 1" width="762" height="475" /><strong>John Williams [left], sheriff of Lowndes County, Alabama was shot and killed in the line of duty on Saturday evening. The suspect, 18-year-old William Chase Johnson, [right], is alleged to have been in a stolen vehicle when Williams responded to the scene</strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A man arrested for shooting an Alabama sheriff dead at a gas station in Hayneville this weekend is the son of a neighboring county&#8217;s deputy sheriff.<br />
John Williams Sr., who was the chief deputy sheriff of Lowndes County in south Alabama for a decade before he was elected sheriff in 2010, was shot and killed Saturday night at a gas station in Hayneville, about 25 miles southwest of Montgomery, said a spokesperson for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.<br />
The alleged shooter, William Chase Johnson, surrendered at the gas station after a four-hour manhunt<br />
Johnson, 18, who is being held on suspicion of murder, has been identified by <a class="class" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/alabama-deputy-s-son-kills-beloved-sheriff-neighboring-county-authorities-n1090376" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">local nbc news</a> as the son of a Montgomery County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy.<br />
The teen had surrendered himself into officers&#8217; custody after the shooting and subsequent four-hour manhunt on the weekend, authorities said.<br />
Williams died at 8:15 pm on Saturday, after he was shot while responding to a call at a convenience store near the gas station in Hayneville.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-336894" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/William-Chase-Johnson-1.jpg" alt="William Chase Johnson 1" width="510" height="660" /><br />
<strong>William Chase Johnson [photo] who&#8217;s accused of shooting and killing the sheriff of Lowndes county in </strong></span></span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong>Haynesville, Ala.</strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong>on Saturday, has been identified as the son of a deputy sheriff in neighboring Montgomery County &#8211; William Chase Johnson is suspected in the fatal shooting of Lowndes County Sheriff John Williams in Haynesville, Ala.</strong></span></span></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Lowndes County Sheriff John Williams was shot and killed in the line of duty on Saturday evening.<br />
</span>Williams was on duty and responding to an incident at the QV gas station, which is across the street from several Lowndes County municipal buildings, when he was shot, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">The suspect, Johnson, is alleged to have been sitting in a stolen truck when Williams responded to the scene. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Authorities say the teen then shot Sheriff Williams and abandoned the vehicle at the gas station, fleeing on foot.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">One eye-witness told the <span class="mol-style-italic"><a class="class" href="https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2019/11/24/lowndes-county-sheriff-john-williams-killed-over-loud-music/4291243002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Montgomery Adviser</a> </span>that the shooting appeared to unfold over complaints of loud music.<br />
&#8216;Big John comes up and asks the young man about the loud music, just like he has done hundreds of times before. Big John don&#8217;t take no foolishness.<br />
&#8216;That&#8217;s when he got shot. I don&#8217;t understand it. The sheriff is gone over loud music? It just don&#8217;t seem right.&#8217;<br />
Police spent several hours searching for the alleged shooter, before Johnson turned himself into officers.<br />
But police said Johnson had fled from the gas station after the shooting occurred just after 8 p.m. and then reappeared at the scene at about midnight.<br />
Officers recovered a handgun from Johnson before taking him into custody.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-336892" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/QV-gas-station-in-Hayneville-Alabama-1.jpg" alt="QV gas station in Hayneville, Alabama 1.JPG" width="943" height="566" /><strong>Cops are seen above at the QV gas station in Hayneville, Ala., where a teen sitting in a stolen car shot and killed the sheriff on Saturday night</strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Johnson has a history of run-ins with the law, including an arrest in August for possessing brass knuckles and being a minor in possession of alcohol.<br />
</span>Those charges were later dropped, according to court records.<br />
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey released a statement to <a class="class" href="https://www.wsfa.com/2019/11/24/lowndes-county-sheriff-john-big-john-williams-killed-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WSFA-TV</a> which read: &#8216;I&#8217;m saddened to hear about Sheriff Big John Williams, who was tragically killed this evening in the line of duty.<br />
&#8216;Through his service to our country in the United States Marine Corps and his many years working in law enforcement, he dedicated his life to keeping other people safe.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-336911" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sheriff-John-Williams-5.jpg" alt="Sheriff John Williams 5.jpg" width="1400" height="1051" />Sheriff &#8216;Big John&#8217; Williams, [photo], died while responding to a call at a convenience store in Hayneville on Saturday</strong></span></h6>
<div> <span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8216;He will be remembered as a consummate professional and pillar of his community.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;I offer my prayers and deepest sympathies to his family and to the men and women of the Lowndes County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.&#8217;<br />
Williams, who was known as &#8216;Big John&#8217; because of his height, was born and raised in Lowndes County.<br />
The website of the county Sheriff&#8217;s Office hailed Williams as someone who &#8216;always wanted to make a difference in his community and felt there was no better way to help his community than to protect and serve them in law enforcement.&#8217;<br />
Williams&#8217; career in law enforcement began in 1978, when he first volunteered as a reserve deputy.<br />
In the 1980s, he joined the Hayneville Police Department in a part-time capacity.<br />
Eventually, he was hired as a full time deputy with the department.<br />
Williams notably in 2000 was the arresting officer of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a 1960s black militant who was known as H. Rap Brown before converting to Islam.<br />
Al-Amin was wanted and later convicted in the fatal 2000 shooting of a Fulton County sheriff&#8217;s deputy in Atlanta.</p>
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<div>Lowndes County, which had a population of around 11,000 in the 2010 census, is predominantly black. <span style="color: var(--color-text);">He rose through the ranks to become chief deputy.<br />
He then quit the department and ran successfully for sheriff in 2010.</span></div>
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<p class="endmarkEnabled">In 2007, then-Gov. Bob Riley&#8217;s appointment of a white officer to replace the county&#8217;s deceased sheriff was met with protests after ignoring commissioners and other elected officials who had recommended Williams for the post. Williams was then <a href="http://www.lowndescountysheriff.com/sheriff.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">elected as </a><a href="http://www.lowndescountysheriff.com/sheriff.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lowndes County sheriff</a> in 2010.<br />
Williams held on to that position since then.<br />
Sheriff Williams is the fifth Alabama law enforcement officer to die from gunfire in the line of duty, and the sixth overall, in 2019, according to a statement from state Attorney General Steve Marshall.</p>
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Alabama deputy’s son, William Chase Johnson, 18, arrested for fatally shooting the sheriff of a neighboring county ‘during a confrontation over loud music at a gas station,’ while sitting in a stolen truck
