Officer-Involved Shooting in Alabama: Deputy Fires Back

0:00It's April 3rd. This is Birmingham News today, powered by AI. Alabama's law enforcement agency is digging into an officer involved shooting up north in Colbert County. It went down Wednesday April 1st, around 10.50 pm, when deputies tried pulling over a motorcycle's name William Robert Marler, but he kept, going, sparking a chase. The pursuit wrapped up near Cotton Town Lane and King Bridge Road in Layton, where things got tense fast. Marler pulled a fire arm on the deputies, and one fire back, hitting him. He's recovering at Huntsville Hospital now, while the deputy who shot stays unnamed and unhurt. No one else got injured in the mix-up, and officials haven't dropped more details yet. We'll stay on this as the investigation rolls on, bringing you the latest when it breaks.