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🌱 13-Year-Old Robbed At Gunpoint + Missing Dog Returned

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Get on up, Mobile! Let's get you all caught up to start this Tuesday, December 14 off on an informed note. Here's what's going on today in Mobile.


First, today's weather:

Sunshine and nice. High: 70 Low: 53.


Here are the top stories today in Mobile:

  1. Mobile police are investigating after a 13-year-old was robbed at gunpoint in a residential area off of Navco Road Saturday afternoon. At about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, police officers were called to Sayner Avenue at Navco Road for a report of a robbery. When officers arrived, they were told a 13-year-old boy was walking in the area when three other juveniles approached him demanded his phone. Police say one of the juveniles pulled out a firearm and attacked the boy. (WKRG News 5)
  2. A Mobile woman, who says she was forced to shoot and kill a loose Pitbull that was attacking her dog, has been reunited with her nine-month old Shih Tzu. The attack happened Wednesday night at the Avalon Apartment Complex on Michael Boulevard. Tatyna Rayford says after the gunshot her dog Kash darted off. (NBC 15 WPMI)
  3. A vehicle fatally struck a 91-year-old woman and injured a 93-year-old man Sunday in Mobile. (AL.com)
  4. Two people were shot from the inside of a business on Three Notch Rd. (NBC 15 WPMI)
  5. The city of Mobile is beginning its interstate lighting replacement on I-10 and I-65. (FOX10 News)

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Sammi Caramela

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