MOBILE, Alabama — A Mobile police officer was shot late Tuesday and rushed to the University of South Alabama Medical Center, where he died, reports the CBS affiliate there, WKRG-TV. SWAT teams arrived around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday after a man barricaded himself in a home, authorities said.
At roughly 2:45 a.m, police told WKRG the barricade situation “has been resolved.”
Later, this tweet from a WKRG reporter:
Suspect, Robert Hollie, has also been pronounced dead. It’s unclear at this time if it was suicide or if he was killed by police.
— Mary Smith (@MarySmithWKRG) February 21, 2018
The slain officer was identified as Justin Billa, WKRG says.
The suspect was connected to a woman whose body was found Tuesday evening, according to an email sent to city officials by the Mobile Police Department.
The woman’s daughter, Octavia Poellnitz, identified her mother as Fonda Poellnitz. She believes her mother’s ex-husband is the man who was barricaded in the home.
“He didn’t love my momma,” Octavia Poellnitz told WKRG.
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