UPDATE (12:11 p.m.) – The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency has issued a Blue Alert regarding this incident. ALEA’s full statement can be read below:
“The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Fusion Center (AFC) has issued a Blue Alert regarding an officer with the Scottsboro Police Department being shot on Saturday July 26. The suspect, identified as Daniel Victor McCarn, 29, a white male, 5’ 10’’, weighing 170 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes, of Huntsville, is currently at large and is armed and dangerous.
A manhunt is currently under way for McCarn who fled on foot and was last seen near the intersection of U.S. Highway 72 and County Park Road, located within Jackson County. Please avoid this area if possible. …