An armed standoff in Grant ended after a man was found with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound that later proved fatal, according to Marshall County Sheriff Phil Sims.
Deputies responded with Grant police to a domestic violence call at an address on Wooten Road in Grant Monday, according to Assistant Chief Deputy Steve Guthrie. When they got to the residence, they were met by a female who told then she ran from the home after an altercation with a man inside, Guthrie said in a press release.
Law enforcement officers were told the man was intoxicated, armed and still inside the residence. Deputies tried to contact him through the doorway, Guthrie said, in hopes that he would come out, but they got no response.
Etowah Co. man receives 8 life sentences for shooting at law enforcement officers Etowah Co. crime scene. (Source: Dixon Hayes/WBRC) By Dixon Hayes | December 10, 2020 at 12:05 PM CST - Updated December 10 at 12:05 PM
ETOWAH COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - An Etowah County man has been sentenced to eight life terms for firing on law enforcement officers nearly three years ago. Arnold Ray Battles. (Source: Etowah Co. Sheriff s Office)
Agents with the Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit, Marshall County Drug Unit, Boaz Police Officers and the FBI executed a search warrant on Battles at 100 Pleasant Hill Cutoff Road.
Battles was convicted in October of the attempt on taking the lives of FBI Safe Streets Commander William Strunk; Etowah County Drug Task Force Agents Steve Guthrie, Robert Sims, Jeremy Lasseter, Kevin Hassell and Randall Johnson; and Boaz Police Officers Justin Drake and Matthew Brannon.