Blount County Crime: Shooting Is Latest In Series Of Incidents

BLOUNT COUNTY, AL — What is otherwise a fairly peaceful area of the state has been battered with violent crimes recent;y, as Blount County has seen multiple homicides and an attempted murder in just the last few weeks.

The latest incident involves a Blountsville man who is charged with attempted murder following a shooting late Friday afternoon. Blount County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a home on a report of a person shot, said Sheriff Mark Moon. When deputies arrived on the scene, a woman told them 49-year-old Sean Weaver had shot someone.

An Alabama Media Group report said the victim, as well as another man, were no longer at the scene by the time deputies got there. They eventually found the victim sitting in the passenger’s side of a Ford SUV bleeding and unable to move.

A female witness told investigators that Weaver fired multiple times at the victim with a .22 caliber rifle. Weaver was taken into custody and remains in the Blount County Jail.

This was just one of a series of unrelated incidents in the county in recent weeks. Last week, four suspects were taken into custody after the gruesome discovery of a dead body in a metal barrel outside a home.

September 5, Blount County investigators officially signed warrants and charged all four suspects with capital murder of 38-year-old Adam Beard. All four suspects are currently being held in the Blount County Correctional Facility without bond.

Also over the weekend, a man and woman were arrested and charged with multiple offenses after an 18-month old child died while in the couple's care. Investigators determined that the child was abused by his mother's boyfriend after the child reportedly grabbed the man's chest hair.

The boy's mother, 24-year-old Samantha McCormack, and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Robert Elmore Jr., are being held without bond in the Blount County Jail

Elmore admitted he had picked up the boy who then grabbed his chest hairs. "He lost his temper," the investigator wrote. He said he let go of the boy, who hit the play pen and then the floor. Elmore said he then picked him up and shook him because he was unresponsive.

Blount County actually reports the least amount of violent crime among the counties in the Birmingham metropolitan area. With just 102 violent crimes per 100,000 people, the county ranks well below Jefferson (727), Shelby (156), St. Clair (182), Bibb (246) and Walker (212) counties.