OPP – COVINGTON CO: 08:14 DEVELOPING There has been an officer involved shooting in Opp this morning. Reports are all law enforcement officers are ok.
Todd Street and Barnes Street in Opp.
Aviation Unit has been requested and is responding.
No more details are known at this time.
UPDATED @ 08:24 AM
From TEXT RICKEY 334-790-1729 and UNCONFIRMED by Law Enforcement, a possible stand off is underway. Air Units in the air around the area.
Anyone with additional information or scene photographs TEXT RICKEY 334-790-1729.
UPDATED @ 8:42 AM
ALEA – State Bureau of Investigation Agents are on the scene.
UPDATED @ 1:06 PM
As Opp Police responded to a call this morning of a man with a gun in a residential area. The officers located the person and as they approached the man pulled the firearm on the officers. There was gunfire between the officers and man with the gun. No office was struck.
Following the gunfire the black male suspect fled into the wood line off Pond Drive in Opp.
A BOLO ( Be On Lookout ) has been issued for black male Amos Matthews, age 51 of Opp. He is considered armed and dangerous. Area law enforcement, to include Covington County Sheriff Blake Turnham, deputies from Covington County Sheriff Department, ALEA – Troopers and ALEA helicopter along with ALEA – State Bureau of Investigation are on the scene and searching for Matthews.
UPDATED @ 5:55 PM
About 1:30 PM Opp Police, ALEA – Special Agents encountered the suspect on a front porch. The suspect brandished a firearm at the officers who fired at the suspect which was pronounced dead on the scene.
