I see the light now : 1 year after Alabama s first COVID-19 case, end may be in sight
The Montgomery Advertiser 3/13/2021 Melissa Brown, Montgomery Advertiser
When he thinks over the last 12 months inside Montgomery s Baptist South hospital, Jared Knighting remembers the sounds, the jarring trill of code blues and rapid response alerts cutting through the ambient beeps and tones of hospital hallways over, and over, and over again. Every time you went into a room, you didn’t know if that was your last time being healthy, said Knighting, a 32-year-old emergency room nurse.
All eyes in Alabama were on Montgomery a year ago on March 13: Coronavirus had officially breached our borders, with the state s first confirmed patient, a civilian contractor on Maxwell Air Force base, hospitalized in the city. Overnight, patient numbers swelled as the state, the country and the world at large shuttered life as we know it to grapple with a disease full of unknowns.�
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – One year has ticked by since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, triggering lockdowns across the country as public health officials raced to get ahead of the deadly disease caused by novel coronavirus.
And there’s perhaps no better evidence of how much our lives have changed over the past year than the last photos we took on our camera phones before the March 11 declaration was issued.
Man charged with murder in Millbrook shooting A suspect has been charged in a fatal Millbrook shooting, police announced. (Source: Millbrook Police) By WSFA Staff | March 5, 2021 at 10:20 AM CST - Updated March 5 at 10:20 AM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A suspect has been charged in a fatal Millbrook shooting, police announced.
According to Millbrook Police Chief P.K. Johnson, Ki-Juan Wyatt, 25 of Prattville, has been charged with murder and robbery first-degree.
The charges are related to the shooting death of Lewis Lucas. The shooting took place Thursday in the 4100 block of Abrams Drive.
Johnson says officers found Lucas at the scene suffering from a gunshot wound. Lucas was treated at the scene by Millbrook fire personnel and taken to Prattville Emergency Room. He was later taken to Baptist South, where he died.
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Tuskegee police arrest second suspect in the death of of a 4-year-old
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Posted Feb 27, 2021
Davion Tarver, 4, died Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, two days after he was struck by a stray bullet in his Tuskegee apartment. (Facebook)
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Tuskegee police have arrested a second suspect for a Feb. 13 shooting that killed a 4-year-old.
Emanuel Howard Jr., 18, was taken into custody on Friday, charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and attempted murder. Another suspect, 18-year-old Joshua Washington, recently had his initial charges upgraded to capital murder for the same incident.
Davion Tarver died after the Saturday shooting occurred two weeks ago in the 500 block of Pleasant Springs Drive.