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Childersburg Police on Wednesday were investigating the shooting death of a man in the Sadie Lee Homes housing community on Tuesday night. It was the third homicide in Talladega County in the last 10 days.
According to Lt. Kevin Koss, the victim was identified as D’Stephen McFarland, 20. McFarland lived in the area, Koss said.
Childersburg police responded to a call reporting a gunshot on Sadie Lee Drive at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived, they discovered the body of a black man, apparently dead of a gunshot wound. The victim was later identified as McFarland, Koss said.
“We are interviewing witnesses and some people of interest,” Koss said Wednesday afternoon. No further information was available while the investigation remained ongoing.
McFarland’s killing is the first homicide in Childersburg in just over a year. Te’querius Marquez Twyman was charged with killing the mother of his children and shooting a police officer in September 2016.
Tuesday night's Childersburg case is the latest of three recent homicides in Talladega County.
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Last Saturday, a motorist on Turner's Mill Road discovered the body of a woman who was later identified as Dorthy Michelle Haney, 31, of Munford. The Sheriff's Office is investigating her death as a homicide after a preliminary autopsy determined that she died of a gunshot wound to the head.
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The Sheriff's Office is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the death of 32-year-old Matthew Lamar Virges, who was shot multiple times at his home in Alpine on Nov. 13.
Anyone with information in the McFarland case should contact Childersburg Police at 256-378-5747.
