Crime & Safety
Hoover Teen Charged In Stabbing
A Hoover teenager was charged with assault after police say he stabbed two other boys during a drug transaction in Inverness.
HOOVER, AL - A 16-year-old male from Hoover has been charged with assault after police say he stabbed two other boys during a drug transaction in Inverness last weekend. The victims admitted they were participating in a drug transaction when Preston Barker Moore attacked them with a knife.
Hoover Police Lt. Keith Czeskleba said the incident occurred on Inverness Cove Way February 3. According to Czeskleba, one of the victims had a severe laceration to his hand, and the other received a cut on his elbow and a stab wound to his thigh.
The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office charged Moore as an adult with two counts of first-degree felony assault.
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