Hoover Police: Officers, driver targeted in random shooting - WIAT 42
(WIAT) – UPDATE: The alleged shooter Martin Wood was a special education teacher at Montevallo Middle School. Cindy Waner with Shelby County Schools said Wood taught at the school for less than a year. ORIGINAL: Hoover Police said someone took several shots at two Hoover Police Officers and a driver they had pulled over during an overnight traffic stop on Thursday. , the shooting happened at 12:21 am while the Hoover officers were standing next to a vehicle on Highway 31 just south of John Hawkins Parkway. “As he crossed through that intersection he actually fired at least 5 rounds at our officers and at that female motorist who was standing outside the vehicles. It could have been a terribly tragic incident,” said Rector. He said there were other officers in the area who spotted the fleeing Nissan Xterra and stopped it near the intersection of Lorna Rd. and Rocky Ridge Ranch Rd. Rector told WIAT 42 News that responding police found a 9 mm handgun in the vehicle and... Rector said Wood was the only person in the vehicle. Certainly he did not know any of the officers that were involved, just a random act of craziness on his part,” said Rector. Rector said the suspect reportedly told officers that he was “upset with his life” and “just being stupid. Wood is being held in the Jefferson County Jail with no bond. Source: wiat.com
