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Region Digest: Woman charged in carrier killing

GADSDEN, Ala.

Woman charged in carrier killing

A 33-year-old woman has been charged with murder in the weekend shooting of a newspaper carrier outside The Gadsden Times building.

Gadsden police Sgt. Tom Bradley said Ethel Lee Brewster of East Gadsden was being held on a $100,000 cash bond in the shooting of Edward Robert Jackson Jr.

Police said the 44-year-old Jackson was shot several times while on the loading dock, waiting to begin his newspaper route.

Witnesses told police that Brewster pulled up to the loading dock and got out. They said she and Jackson quarreled before she pulled out a gun.