A man fatally shot a defendant waiting outside a courthouse on Monday morning, and a suspect is in custody, according to law enforcement officials.
Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker and Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest said they don’t know why the suspect would have shot 37-year-old Kendrick Armond Brown.
Brown was facing charges of selling cocaine and had been sentenced to prison time on past drug counts, according to an indictment dated February 10. Brown had been expected to appear in court on Monday on the latest charges.
A relative of the suspect was wounded in a shooting just two days earlier, but officials didn’t know whether the two shootings were linked, Guest said.
In the courthouse shooting, the suspect got out of a car, walked up and shot the victim once in the chest with a semiautomatic handgun, Tucker said. The suspect laid down the handgun and was arrested without a struggle, Tucker said. Guest said he thought there was little that deputies could have done to prevent the shooting.
