Alabama Homicide Suspects Arrested After Multi-State Crime Spree

JEFFERSON COUNTY, AL — Two suspects in the Dec. 13 shooting death of Kellie Ann Hughes have been captured in Missouri. Brady Witcher and Brittany McMillan have been charged in a Tennessee home invasion, kidnapping and other crimes in addition to Hughes' murder, according to Clarksville, Tennessee, police.

Deputy Chief David Agee of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said they received a 911 call Dec. 13 from a woman saying she had been kidnapped and was being held at Woodside Condominiums in Center Point. Deputies arrived to find the woman tied up, and with visible injuries.

Agee said the victim told deputies she was likely kidnapped because she knew about a homicide, and led investigators to a body in a wooded area near St. Vincent's East. The body was discovered Saturday and was identified as Hughes. Agee said at the time that Witcher and McMillan had been identified as suspects in the case.

Witcher and McMillan, who is from Springville, were captured Thursday night at a Hazelwood, Missouri, hotel according a report from Clarksville police.

Law enforcement officers identified the pair as suspects in two shoplifting incidents after the discovery of Hughes' body by Jefferson County deputies. These incidents were just part of a crime spree stretching from Alabama into Missouri over the past week

Police say the pair broke into a home in Tennessee Dec. 18, and after eluding law enforcement, they broke into an apartment and held the residents at gunpoint and forced them into a closet. The victims remained in the closet until the suspects took them out sometime in the morning of the Dec. 19.

The victims were separated into different rooms, at which point, a confrontation between the victims and suspects occurred, according to the police report. Police say that during the altercation, the male victim was stabbed, a gun was fired, and the female victim was able to wrestle away a gun from McMillan.

The victims were able to escape and police were notified as the suspects fled with the victims' 2012 GMC pickup truck. The pickup has not been recovered, nor has the 2019 Nissan Altima the pair was reportedly driving during the crimes in Jefferson County.

Both suspects are being held in a jail in Hazelwood awaiting transfer.