The hunt for the suspect in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend and the shooting of four other people in Alabama ended Tuesday in Louisiana with more bloodshed.
Cortrell Montesez Burks, 50, was taken into custody in Bossier City after authorities say shots were fired during a robbery at a gas station there and a subsequent shootout with police that left two people dead and two others injured, including a police officer.
Burks was not injured in the shootout.
Authorities in Alabama and Louisiana would not confirm that Burks is the suspect in today’s gas station shooting, but the sister of the Alabama homicide victim said she was notified that he was in custody in connection with that incident.
Public records show that a Cortrell Montesez Burks, age 50, was booked into the Bossier City Jail at 6:39 p.m.
Burks has been sought by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and Birmingham police in the Sunday slaying of 40-year-old Erica Shontea Williams.
The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office on Monday issued a murder warrant against him.
Williams was found stabbed to death about 6:30 p.m. Sunday when Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to her home in the 300 block of 20th Avenue N.E. in the Center Point area on a welfare check.
Williams’ sister, Marva Birchfield, said she received a Facebook message Sunday from an acquaintance saying that Burks had said he had killed Williams.
Birchfield tried to call her sister, and then family went to her home and could get no answer at the door.
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