Alabama murder suspect also is suspected of killing 2, wounding 3 others in Bossier City

BOSSIER CITY, La./JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (KSLA) — An Alabama homicide suspect is the person who is also suspected of killing two folks and wounding three others Tuesday (Could 2) at a Valero fuel station in Bossier Metropolis.

Cortrell Montesez Burks has been arrested by Bossier Metropolis police on:

• 2 counts of first-degree homicide,
• 3 counts of tried first-degree homicide, and,
• 2 counts of use of a firearm throughout an armed theft.

Reserving information present the 50-year-old is also being held as a fugitive from Jefferson County, Ala.

That’s the place authorities say Burks is suspected of stabbing a lady to loss of life and taking pictures 4 different folks.

It was about 6:26 p.m. April 30 when the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace was dispatched to the 300 block of twentieth Ave. NE in Middle Level, Ala., to conduct a requested welfare verify, in accordance with a Sheriff’s Workplace Fb submit. That’s the place 40-year-old Erica Williams was discovered useless in her condo. She had been stabbed to loss of life.

The murder suspect is believed to have then traveled about 8.5 miles to Birmingham and fired a number of photographs right into a home within the 800 block of forty eighth St. North. “It’s thought that this location is the house of the murder sufferer’s mom,” the Fb submit reads.

4 folks had been reported to have been struck by gunfire on the forty eighth Road location. Their accidents weren’t considered life-threatening.

Jefferson County authorities recognized Burks as an individual of curiosity in each circumstances.

They described him as a Black male who stands 6′2″ tall, weighs about 250 kilos and should have a shaved head and a gray beard.

Burks final was seen driving a 2005 black Nissan Armada bearing tag #1A0TBH8.

And a relative of the Jefferson County murder sufferer mentioned she was advised the suspect in that case had been arrested in reference to the theft and taking pictures in Bossier Metropolis.

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