ELBA – COFFEE COUNTY: UPDATED At 8:28 AM this Saturday morning Coffee County Central 911 Center dispatched Elba Police, Coffee County Sheriff Department, and Enterprise Rescue to a firearm assault at Dorsey Trailers in Elba. Each department responded along with Coffee County Sheriff Scott Byrd.
The emergency units found a male subject with a firearm assault wound to the back. Enterprise Rescue dispatched one of the three Enterprise Rescue helicopters to the scene. The patient, a manager of Dorsey Trailers, was flown to a trauma center. The manager’s firearm assault injuries are not reported to be life threatening, but the firearm assault was severe.
Elba Police, Coffee County Sheriff Scott Byrd and Coffee County Sheriff Deputies launched an investigation. The suspect was identified quickly. The officers, Sheriff Byrd and Enterprise Police quickly hit a location near Enterprise in an effort to apprehend the suspect but he was not at the location.
All of the agencies and officers worked together, all day. ALEA – State Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Marshall’s, and Houston County Sheriff Donald Valenza and members of the Houston County Sheriff Special Response Team ( SWAT ), combined with Elba Police, Enterprise Police and Coffee County Sheriff Scott Byrd and deputies from Coffee County Sheriff Department, based on the investigation since 8:28 AM located the whereabouts of the suspect. And tonight, before 9:00 PM, the combined agencies swarmed the location and took the suspect into custody.
The suspect is identified as hispanic male Julio Torres described as 5’09, 266 pounds. After questioning, Torres has been arrested and booked into the Coffee County Jail, under a no bond.
Information is the manager terminated Torres this morning and escorted him outside the fence of Dorsey Trailers in Elba. It is alleged that Torres went to his vehicle, obtained a vehicle, returning to the fence and firing several rounds over the fence and struck the manager in the back. Immediately the emergency system in Coffee County worked, and all agencies and outside agencies worked as one. In about 12 hours from the call hitting Coffee County 911, law enforcement had suspect identified, his location, resources in place, and the officers placed their lives in danger and took the alleged shooter into custody.
JOB WELL DONE!!!
