From the Office of DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden: FORT PAYNE, Ala. – On Sunday, May 4, 2025, deputies were dispatched to Hwy 75 in Ider to assist in regards to an officer involved shooting. Ider Police Department responded to a 911 call reporting that a shooting incident had taken place. Once on scene an…
04/11/2025 Mentone Shooting Update FORT PAYNE, Ala. – On Thursday, April 10th, 2025, at 6:16pm Dekalb County 911 received a call in the 3000 block of US HWY 117 in Mentone regarding a vehicle that had struck a residence there. The caller also reported that a male inside the vehicle had been shot.Mentone Police, Dekalb…
From the Office of DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden: FORT PAYNE, Ala. – On January 14, 2025, at approximately 11:26 pm, DeKalb County Deputies, along with Henagar and Ider Police Department’s responded to Red Bud Drive in Ider in regards to a female victim who was suffering from a gunshot wound. DeKalb Ambulance Service responded…
10/02/2024 Three arrested in regard to a shot’s fired call in Painter On Wednesday, September 18th, Dekalb County deputies were dispatched to an address on CR-9 in the Painter community in regard to a shot’s fired call and possible altercation. While deputies were enroute, the caller advised Dekalb 911 that a subject involved in the…
From the Office of DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden: FORT PAYNE, Ala. – On Thursday, June 13, 2024, at around 4:15 P.M. deputies were dispatched to County Road 386 in DeKalb County for a report of someone shooting into an occupied dwelling. DeKalb County Investigations Unit and DeKalb County Drug Task Force conducted a search…
Date: 01/03/2022 Title: Press Release – Follow-up on Shooting Chief David Davis states that Randell Jerome Meyers, age 44 of the Mount Vernon Community was identified as the deceased person in the shooting incident that occurred yesterday, January 2nd in Fort Payne. At this time no arrest has been made. Once the investigation is complete…
Date: 01/02/2022 Title: Press Release – Shooting Chief David Davis reports that at approximately 9:30 am on today’s date Fort Payne Police Department received a call that an altercation with shots being fired had occurred in the 1000 block of Gault Ave N, Fort Payne. Fort Payne Police Officers and Fort Payne Fire Medics responded…
On 1/11/2021 at around 9:35 p.m. the Scottsboro Police Department received a call of a person being shot at 24729 John T. Reid Pkwy. Officers arrived on scene to find that the manager had been shot after going out the back door of the business to talk to a former employee. The former employee fired…
