Authorities in Covington County aren't saying much about a fatal
shooting involving a sheriff's deputy. It happened Thursday about noon
at a residence on Highway 55, about four miles north of Florala, in the
Lockhart community. The Alabama Bureau of Investigation said a Florala
man, 47-year-old Aron Shaw, was shot and killed after he got into a fight with a deputy.
Stephanie Green lived in the same neighborhood as Aron Shaw. She says
around 11:30 Thursday morning, she heard someone screaming for help
saying, "They are going to kill me." Green says that's when police
arrested Aron Shaw. A little while later, he was found shot to death
nearly 4 miles outside of Florala. Green says she's not surprised
considering what she says she saw happened during the arrest. "I saw
someone stomp him and he slammed his head it the car 5 times. You could
hear it," "It's just sad," said Sylvia Wallace, a woman who lived
not far from Shaw. "He was found on the ground dead. An officer shot
him." Shaw allegedly kicked the glass out of a patrol car after being
apprehended by law enforcement, and subsequently obtained the
official's tazer gun and repeatedly shocked the officer. Linda Carson
claims to have been an eye witness to an incident involving Shaw and
police officers the day he was shot to death. "They were beating him,"
Carson said. "I'm talking beating this man. I backed up to tell these
other guys to come and look at what was going on. "I said, 'I've got to
go get this man some help,' so I called the mayor's office and said,
'Somebody needs to get up there and stop them from beating that man up
there.' [more] and [more] and[more] and [more]
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