WOODSTOCK, Ala. (AP) — A person featured within the hit podcast “S-City” that chronicled occasions in a rural Alabama neighborhood was shot and killed by police throughout a weekend standoff within the city, authorities stated Monday.
Joseph Tyler Goodson, 32, of Woodstock, was shot and killed by officers after he barricaded himself inside a house and “brandished a gun” at officers early Sunday, the Alabama Legislation Enforcement Company stated.
The company’s assertion stated the Woodstock Police Division had initially responded to a “name for service” early Sunday and the standoff ensued. A number of legislation enforcement companies converged on the house.
The assertion stated Goodson was shot by officers through the confrontation and was subsequently pronounced useless.
The state company didn’t describe what led to the preliminary name to the house.
“Police bout to shoot me down in my very own yard,” a message posted early Sunday on Goodson’s Fb account learn, information shops, WIAT and al.com reported.
The state company is reviewing the taking pictures and can flip its findings over to the Bibb County district lawyer.
The 2017 podcast, which won a Peabody Award, instructed the story of an Alabama man named John B. McLemore, who died by suicide earlier than the present got here out. McLemore’s use of an expletive to explain his hometown provides the podcast its abbreviated title.
“S-City” begins telling the story of a reputed killing and in addition one other loss of life and winds up focusing on the eccentric McLemore, a restorer of vintage clocks, and his tortured relationship with the city of Woodstock. A number of folks in his life have been additionally featured, together with Goodson.
“As a result of you understand, I ain’t ever had no daddy value a rattling. He’s nearly the one daddy I’ve acquired,” Goodson stated of McLemore within the the third episode of the podcast.
Woodstock, with a inhabitants of about 1,500 folks, is situated about 35 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of the key metropolis of Birmingham.
“I do know that everybody desires solutions and particulars, myself included,” Woodstock Mayor Jeff Dodson stated in a press release Monday. “Tyler was well-known and cherished on my own, his household and this neighborhood. That love extends far past as a result of S-City podcast.
“Please bear in mind right now that he’s a lot greater than a personality to the followers who cherished him. This younger man was a father, son, brother and buddy to many,” the mayor added.
Julie Synder, the chief producer of “S-City” declined to right away remark when reached by e mail.
Goodson in 2017 acquired a suspended sentence after pleading responsible to housebreaking and theft costs accusing him of taking objects from McLemore’s property after his loss of life. Goodson, earlier than pleading responsible, had maintained he was retrieving objects that belonged to him.
Goodson instructed The Related Press in 2017 that the podcast had introduced a deluge of consideration on him and the city, however neither have completed him any favors.
“It’s a tragic story, particularly in case you’re a part of it,” Goodson stated.
