Weaver police on Saturday afternoon discovered a woman dead and her 4-year-old son shot in the head at a Jacksonville home. They say the suspect fatally shot himself after leading police on a high-speed chase through Anniston and Oxford, including Talladega County.
Weaver Police Chief Wayne Bush said police received a call at about 1:02 p.m. Saturday, asking for a welfare check at a Juanita Lane residence. The caller said a 21-year-old man told his mother he'd killed his girlfriend there.
The officer who responded found what looked like forced entry at a window on the back door.
When he and Calhoun County deputies went into the home, they found Katlynn M. Jones, 24, dead from multiple gunshot and stab wounds, and they found her son alive, but with a gunshot wound to the head.