More charges likely for suspect in Huntsville police shooting

More charges likely for suspect in Huntsville police shooting

Prosecutors are still evaluating additional charges for the man accused of shooting and killing a Huntsville police officer, as well as wounding another officer and a woman on Tuesday.

Juan Robert Laws, 24, was booked into the Madison County Jail just before 11 p.m. Tuesday on a charge of capital murder of a law enforcement officer.

He is accused of killing Officer Garrett Crumby, as well as wounding Officer Albert Morin and a woman, whose name has not yet been released.

Tim Gann, the chief deputy district attorney for Madison County, said he expects additional charges.

“We’re still evaluating,” Gann told AL.com. “There may be many more charges.”

If convicted of capital murder, Laws would face either the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The shootings happened shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday at an apartment complex on the 4600 block of Governors House Drive. A woman called 911 to report she had been shot. Police found her when they arrived at the scene and she was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Huntsville police Deputy Chief Michael Johnson said at a news conference.

“During the course of the initial part of the call, the officers were also shot by an offender,” Johnson said.

Gann said he did not know the nature of the relationship between Laws and the wounded woman, but there were children at the apartment.

In a video circulated on social media, officers responding to the shooting were seen walking away with one child wrapped in a blanket, while a woman reaches down from a window and puts a second child in an officer’s hands.

Investigators are still sorting out several details.

“It was a long night,” Gann said.

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