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VOL. 125, NO. 17
Six suspects in total charged in Dadeville mass shooting By WILL MARLOW & LIZI ARBOGAST GWIN TPI Staff Six arrests have occurred in connection with the mass shooting that occurred Saturday, April 15, in Dadeville, leaving four dead and 32 wounded. At about 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, Tyreese “Ty Reik” McCullough, 17, and Travis
McCullough, 16, both of Tuskegee were initially arrested and formally charged with four counts of reckless murder, according to a press conference on the steps of the Tallapoosa County Courthouse on Wednesday. Then approximately 2:30 p.m Wednesday, law enforcement also arrested and formally charged Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, of Auburn with four counts of reck-
less murder. Law enforcement arrested three additional individuals in relation to the shooting Thursday, bringing the total number charged to a combined six suspects. At around noon Thursday, both Johnny Letron Brown, 20, and Willie George Brown Jr., 19, were arrested and formally charged with four counts of reckless murder in connection
with the Dadeville mass shooting on Sunday night, according to a press release from Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. 5th Circuit District Attorney Mike Segrest announced Thursday evening an additional arrest had been made of a 15-year-old male juvenile. Like the other five who have been arrested so far, the 15-year-old, of Tuskegee, has been charged with four counts
of reckless murder, Segrest said, and he is being held at a juvenile facility with no bond. He cannot release the juvenile’s name due to his age; Segrest said the threshold for being able to release the name is 16. In regards to if there will be more arrests coming in connection with the shooting, Segrest said likely not. See CHARGED, Page A6
‘Still an open case’ Law enforcement still hasn’t given up on decades old missing person case By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor
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rthur Oliver is a highly successful costume designer and now a Tallassee High School Alumni Association Hall of Pride. Getting inducted into the Hall of Pride was a proud moment for Oliver. “The reason I really wanted to be here, my mother Vicki Adkins Oliver Baker was the first inductee to the Hall of Pride,” Oliver said. “To know that my picture is going to be hanging there with my mother,
that’s really meaningful. Not surprisingly enough, it was jumping through hoops and fire to get to stand here.” Oliver graduated in 1989 and went on to design costumes for the Moscow Ballet, American Repertory Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare and Company and Berkshire Theater Group to name a few. “I can almost say look at his designs and I wouldn’t have to say anything else,” Suzannah Solomon Wilson said. “But there is a whole lot more to say about him.”
From the start Oliver recognized his artist talents. “I had a very interesting relationship growing up in the Tallassee schools — I did not fit in,” Oliver said. “However, from kindergarten and up through my senior year in high school, my artistic talents were always supported by not just my peers but the administrators who recognized the importance of having an artist, not just exist in the community but in the world.” While in high school, Oliver sought further support of his
See MARCHING, Page A6
CLIFF WILLIAMS | THE TRIBUNE
Tallassee High School Class of 1989 graduate Arthur Ted Oliver, center, poses with Noah Griggs, left, and Suzannah Solomon Wilson after Oliver was inducted into the Tallassee High School Alumni Association Hall of Pride.
It has been 25 years since Traci Pittman Kegley was last seen in Elmore County. The young mother had borrowed a credit card from her parents Steven and Linda Pittman to purchase gas on April 26, 1998 from a convenience store near the intersection of
Redland Road and U.S. Highway 231. The next day Kegley’s 1993 Geo Storm KEGLEY was found on Old Georgia Road with her 2-yearold daughter Peyton See CASE, Page A6
Joe Sewell Award finalists announced STAFF REPORT TPI Staff The board of directors of the Joe Sewell Memorial Award and John Sewell Memorial Scholarship have released the names of its 2023 senior finalists. The award was established in 2005 to recognize outstanding high school senior athletes in Elmore County who have consistently represented the highest ideals of Christian leadership. Each year, one male and one female senior from
every Elmore County high school are chosen for the top honor SEWELL – the Joe Sewell Memorial Award and $3,000 John Sewell Scholarship. Male and female category winners are also selected for academics; athletics; leadership; and church, community, See AWARD, Page A6
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