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Atmore Man Murdered After Trying To Stop Fight On Atmore Street
January 14, 2024
An arrest has been made in a Saturday morning murder in Atmore.
The Atmore Police Department responded to reported gunfire just before 11 a.m. in the area of Martin Luther King Avenue and Bragg Street.
They found a 39-year old Okeema McCants suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. McCants was transported to Atmore Community Hospital where he was later pronounced deceased.
“Witnesses stated that Mr. McCants was driving on Martin Luther King when he stopped to try and stop a physical altercation between a group of males in the street. Multiple shots were fired shortly after Mr. McCants tried to intervene,” Atmore Police Sgt. Darrell McMann said.
Witnesses provided police with a description that led to the arrest of 25-year old Charles DeWayne Walker of Atmore about two hours later. Atmore Police said he was in possession of a handgun stolen from Jefferson County, Alabama, at the time of his arrest and had an outstanding warrant for theft of property.
Walker was booked into the Escambia County (AL) Detention Center without bond on a charge of murder.
Investigators are attempting to identify the subjects involved in the altercation. Anyone with information is asked to call Atmore Police at (251) 368-9141.
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15 Responses to “Atmore Man Murdered After Trying To Stop Fight On Atmore Street”
@Bob,
Prove it! I don’t think you can. But that’s the price of a civilized society is to cut out the uncivilized barbarians and show them what will happen to them if they murder. Have a nice day.
Whatcha bet slap on the wrist, 3 hots and a cot, cable TV, Gym privileges, library, rec center then parole, all on our tax dollars then back on the street to kill again, wonder how many unsolved homicides can be attributed to this thug.
@Mike J.
In the US, we have executed a disturbingly large number of innocent people. As long as our government is fallible, I don’t trust them to kill people.
@ EMD – Why wasn’t he airlifted? Probably because he was less than 8 minutes at the most from the nearest emergency care facility where could get medical care to sustain him (if he could have survived until Life flight got there) then he could have been airlifted. He probably couldn’t survive multiple gunshot wounds long enough for air transport.
Prayers to his family. Hope they get some kind of justice and the murderer never walks the streets again.
Every convicted murderer should receive the death penalty. If the conviction has no possibility of corruption or mistakes, then the convicted should be executed using the same method used to kill the victim.
Shootings will not stop unless the people in the communities speak up vs being scared.
Why in the world was he not airlifted to a decent ER where proper care could be given?
Throw the dadgum key away on this thug. I’m sure there’s more who are responsible for the loss of this good samaritans act. This is a great reason why we shouldn’t get involved in trying to intervene in some acts of violence. Of course those with a good heart are going to anyways. I pray for the family of the young man who was murdered for just trying to help out and stop this fight. The tattoo on the neck sure makes this one scary doesn’t it? No, it doesn’t to me. If he’s found guilty I hope he gets the same type/style of justice that he gave the young man who was killed. Seems we need to bring back that “fast pass” to end all capital murder and plug THE CHAIR back in. No, I’m not promoting violence to end violence but “life sentences” don’t scare these criminals anymore…we, as a Country, have gotten soft on how we deal with some who commit these acts of violence and it’s way past time we give them what they gave their victims.
Imagine if the News, the Police and the courts were honest ,USA does not have a gun problem, drug problem it s a certain type of people problem, We say parts of cities have bad areas, when we all really know what that means. We just all have been conditioned to say nothing and do nothing , Cops are overworked and underpaid, Happy Martin Luther King Day Everyone. Stay Armed everyone.
Life. Wasted.
I guess they’ll let him go in 6 years.
Total shame trying to be a good Samaritan and get killed.
Hang him in the town park.
@ Don’t Mess With Jim … it’s not the spider I’m worried about. It’s the fact that these thugs are cowards and hunt in packs.
2 minutes, 1 block from the police station. Atmore is going crazy with shootings/killings. 1 per 3 days or something?
If convicted give him the maximum sentence death if it’s available!!!!
I’ve taken on a lot of men in my 53 years, but I’m wise enough to avoid one with a spider on his neck