Man featured in ‘S-City’ podcast shot and killed by police throughout standoff, authorities say
WOODSTOCK, Ala. (AP) — A person featured within the hit podcast “S-City” that chronicled occasions in a rural Alabama group was shot and killed by police throughout a weekend standoff within the city, authorities stated Monday.
Joseph Tyler Goodson, 32, of Woodstock, was shot and killed by officers after he barricaded himself inside a house and “brandished a gun” at officers early Sunday, the Alabama Legislation Enforcement Company stated.
The company’s assertion stated the Woodstock Police Division had initially responded to a “name for service” early Sunday and the standoff ensued. A number of regulation enforcement businesses converged on the house.
The assertion stated Goodson was shot by officers through the confrontation and was subsequently pronounced lifeless.
The state company didn’t describe what led to the preliminary name to the house.
“Police bout to shoot me down in my very own yard,” a message posted early Sunday on Goodson’s Fb account learn, information shops, WIAT and al.com reported.
The state company is reviewing the taking pictures and can flip its findings over to the Bibb County district lawyer.
The 2017 podcast, which won a Peabody Award, instructed the story of an Alabama man named John B. McLemore, who died earlier than the present got here out. McLemore’s use of an expletive to explain his hometown offers the podcast its abbreviated title.
“S-City” begins telling the story of a reputed killing and likewise one other demise and winds up focusing on McLemore and his tortured relationship with the city of Woodstock. A number of folks in his life had been additionally featured, together with Goodson.
“I do know that everybody needs solutions and particulars, myself included,” Woodstock Mayor Jeff Dodson stated in a press release Monday. “Tyler was well-known and beloved on my own, his household and this group. That love extends far past because of the S-City podcast.
“Please bear in mind at the moment that he’s a lot greater than a personality to the followers who beloved him. This younger man was a father, son, brother and pal to many,” the mayor added.
Woodstock, with a inhabitants of about 1,500 folks, is positioned about 35 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of the most important metropolis of Birmingham.
