Photo courtesy of the Scottsboro, Ala., Police Department of homicide suspect Terrance Austin being returned to Alabama after being extradited from Marion County, Tenn.
Mugshot of Warren Hardy from the Marion County (Tenn.) JailThere were tense moments in Whitwell, Tenn., Sunday but no one was hurt when an Alabama man sought in the slaying of a 72-year-old Huntsville, Ala., woman brandished a weapon as Marion County deputies tried to get him to surrender.
Sheriff Ronnie “Bo” Burnett said Monday 27-year-old Warren Hardy of Huntsville is being held on a fugitive-from-justice warrant related to accusations in Alabama that he shot and killed Kathleen Lundy, a resident of a gated community in West Huntsville, on Friday.
Burnett said the shooting apparently began with a domestic violence situation in Alabama that led Hardy to Tennessee later.
Marion County deputies acting on information released out of Huntsville to be on the lookout for Hardy answered a call at a church in Powells Crossroads about a man looking into cars in the parking lot, Burnett said. Deputies arrived but the man was gone.
“About 10 minutes later, he was spotted on Highway 28 by a Jasper officer coming south and he attempted to turn around and fled and other officers got involved in the chase,” Burnett said.