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Before Johnny Ford drove into downtown Tuskegee and climbed into an electronic lift bucket with a saw on Wednesday, he prayed.
When the saw touched the concrete ankle of the Confederate soldier statue perched over the town square, he remembered.
Ford remembered his childhood friend, Sammy Younge, a Black Navy veteran and civil rights worker gunned down in 1966 after asking to use a whites-only bathroom. Ford remembered Tuskegee University students streaming into town streets when Younge s accused killer was acquitted, attaching chains and ropes to the towering monument to the Confederacy in a failed effort to pull it from its pedestal.
Before Johnny Ford drove into downtown Tuskegee and climbed into an electronic lift bucket with a saw on Wednesday, he prayed.
When the saw touched the concrete ankle of the towering Confederate soldier statue perched over the town square, he remembered.
Ford remembered his childhood friend, Sammy Younge, a Black Navy veteran and civil rights worker gunned down in 1966 after asking to use a whites-only bathroom. Ford remembered Tuskegee University students streaming into town streets when Younge s accused killer was acquitted, attaching chains and ropes to the towering monument to the Confederacy in a failed effort to pull it from its pedestal.
Escaped Macon County inmate caught According to Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson, Nakelon Vason, 22, was caught in the area of Nancy Street and Auburn Street Thursday. (Source: Macon County Sheriff s Office) By WSFA Staff | April 22, 2021 at 4:54 PM CDT - Updated April 22 at 8:59 PM
MACON COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - The search for an escaped inmate in Macon County came to an end Thursday evening.
According to Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson, Nakelon Vason, 22, was caught in the area of Nancy Street and Auburn Street.
He escaped Thursday from the Macon County Detention Facility.
Brunson said Vason was in jail on a discharging a gun into an occupied dwelling charge.