Fatal fire in Selma deemed âsuspiciousâ
Fatal fire in Selma deemed âsuspiciousâ By Bryan Henry | April 19, 2021 at 5:14 PM CDT - Updated April 19 at 6:43 PM
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - A major investigation is underway in a house fire that killed a Selma man. Three agencies are now involved.
It happened around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Whatâs left of the home on Short Griffin Avenue remains cordoned off by crime tape, the scene of a tragedy that took the life of one man and injured two others.
Interim Selma fire chief Gabriel Sharpe says they are âsuspiciousâ about the origin of the fire.
$500,000 Confederate chair stolen from cemetery by ‘White Lies Matter’ recovered; 2 people arrested
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A Confederate monument stolen from a Selma cemetery last month has been recovered and two people have been arrested, with a third still sought.
Selma Police Chief Kenta Fulford and District Attorney Michael Jackson on Friday confirmed the recovery and the arrests.
According to New Orleans police, Eighth District detectives on Tuesday received a request from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office for assistance in recovering the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair, which was stolen in late March from Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma.
During the investigation, detectives received a tip that the chair was at a location near the intersection of Feliciana and North Galvez streets. The chair was found and recovered on Thursday - seemingly undamaged. The chair was taken into police custody and will be released to its owners.
The statue known as The Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair was stolen in March and held for ransom. Author: WWL Staff, Associated Press Published: 1:43 PM CDT April 9, 2021 Updated: 6:24 PM CDT April 9, 2021
NEW ORLEANS New Orleans police arrested two people and are searching for a third in connection to a Confederate monument stolen from Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala.
According to NOPD, Alabama s Dallas County Sheriff s Office received a tip that the concrete chair, known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair, was in New Orleans.
Police found the chair near the corner of Feliciana and North Galvez Streets on Thursday, April 8, seemingly undamaged. Police say the monument has since been returned to its owners.
$500,000 Confederate chair stolen from Alabama cemetery recovered, 2 arrested, 1 sought
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A Confederate monument stolen from a Selma cemetery last month has been recovered and two people have been arrested, with a third still sought.
Selma Police Chief Kenta Fulford and District Attorney Michael Jackson on Friday confirmed the recovery and the arrests.
According to New Orleans police, Eighth District detectives on Tuesday received a request from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office for assistance in recovering the The Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair was stolen in late March from Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma. During the investigation, detectives received a tip that the chair was at a location near the intersection of Feliciana and North Galvez Streets. The chair was found and recovered on Thursday - seemingly undamaged. The chair was taken into police custody and will be released to its owners.
$500,000 Confederate chair stolen from Alabama cemetery used as toilet, will be returned tonight
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The group, which calls itself White Lies Matter, earlier this week said they would give the chair to the United Daughters of the Confederacy if the organization agreed to hang a banner outside its Richmond, Va. Headquarters.
They demanded that the UDC hang the banner at 1 p.m. Friday - the anniversary of the Confederacy’s surrender in the Civil War and leave it there for 24 hours.
The banner bears a quote from Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army activist wanted by the FBI for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper: “The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”