Vance Summers News Today

A hearing over whether a temporary gag order should be made permanent during court proceedings in the case of Decatur Police Officer Mac Marquette is now down to a Judge’s decision.

Attorneys for Mac Marquette, the former Decatur police officer accused of shooting and killing Steve Perkins, on Friday sought to dismiss a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit filed

Former Decatur police officer Mac Bailey Marquette on Friday pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder stemming from the fatal shooting of Steve Perkins.

The City of Decatur says the appeal hearings for the four officers involved in the shooting death of Steve Perkins have been postponed.

In response to a joint petition by the officers’ attorneys, the Personnel Board on Thursday delayed the appeal hearings for the Decatur police officers involved in the Sept. 29 shooting

An attorney for the City of Decatur confirmed to News 19 that the police officer discipline appeal hearings scheduled to begin next week have been postponed.

The Decatur Personnel Board on Thursday morning voted to delay the planned appeal hearings for the four Decatur police officers involved in the Sept. 29 shooting death of Steve Perkins.

Alabama police officer Mac Bailey Marquette, 23, shot Steve Perkins, 39, dead while helping a tow truck driver repossess his truck from his home in Decatur. The driver had reported that Perkins was armed.

The family of Steve Perkins said they will keep fighting until everyone involved in his Sept. 29 death is held accountable after the Morgan County district attorney announced Friday that

Mac Bailey Marquette, 23, formerly an officer with the Decatur Police Department, has been arrested on a murder charge in the September 2022 killing of Stephen Perkins.