Elderly Man Shoots Foley Police Officer

1:17 p.m.

11:22 a.m.
Foley police went to the house at 6:00 a.m. to serve a search warrant. They knocked and then entered while yelling "Police! Search Warrant!"
The home owner's son, 51-year-old Michael Woods, had told an undercover officer that he had a large amount of marijuana in the house.

Police arrested Woods and his mother, before his father, 77-year-old Robert Woods, came out of the master bedroom with a handgun. Chief David Wilson says his officers yelled at Woods to drop the gun. Instead, Woods shot officer Randy Stallworth in the upper thigh of his left leg and then pointed the gun at police again. At that point, several officers shot & killed Woods.

Officer Stallworth is at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola. He will need surgery, but is expected to be ok.

All the officers involved in the shooting will be placed on paid adminstartive leave pending the investigation.

Michael Woods was arrested and charged with two felony counts of distributing marijuana.

9:42 a.m.
The Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the Baldwin County District Attorney and Sheriff's Office are investigating a deadly police shooting involving Foley police.

According to Chief David Wilson, officers were serving a search warrant Wednesday morning at a home on East Ashford Park Drive. When they came inside, a "member of the house" opened fire and shot one officer in the leg. Several officers returned fire killing the gunman. The wounded officer was airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola.

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