Luther Bernard Watkins

A Tuscaloosa County judge will not postpone the trial of a man who fatally shot a police officer over six years ago, denying a request from his new lawyers.

The capital murder trial of the man who killed a Tuscaloosa Police officer in 2019 may begin in February after courts denied petitions to dismiss the case.

The jury trial for Luther Bernard Watkins, the man who fatally shot a Tuscaloosa Police officer six years ago, will be further delayed after all his defense attorneys withdrew from the case this week.

A circuit judge has denied a motion to dismiss the capital murder charge against a man who said he was acting in self-defense when he killed a Tuscaloosa Police officer almost six years ago.

Almost six years after Luther Bernard Watkins Jr. shot and killed a Tuscaloosa Police Officer, a judge is deciding if he did so in self-defense or if he will face a jury trial for capital murder.

The man who killed a Tuscaloosa Police officer more than five years ago will present a case that he did so in self-defense later this month.

A man who killed a Tuscaloosa Police investigator more than five years ago says he's being subjected to inhumane treatment in the Tuscaloosa County Jail and continues to plead for a transfer or trial.

Attorneys for the man accused of murdering a Tuscaloosa Police officer have asked to transfer him out of the jail here, where he has been held for almost five years without bond or a trial.

A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer in Tuscaloosa almost four years ago has been declared competent enough for his capital murder trial, which is expected to begin sometime later this year.

Almost three years after a Tuscaloosa Police Officer was fatally shot in the line of duty, a judge said his alleged killer may go to trial early next year.