A person highlighted in the strike podcast “S-City” that chronicled occasions in a rural Alabama neighborhood was shot and killed by police during a weekend standoff in the city, authorities claimed Monday.
Joseph Tyler Goodson, 32, of Woodstock, was shot and killed by officers soon after he barricaded himself within a residence and “brandished a gun” at officers early Sunday, the Alabama Regulation Enforcement Company mentioned.
The agency’s assertion explained the Woodstock Police Office had originally responded to a “call for service” early Sunday and the standoff ensued. Several legislation enforcement agencies converged on the property.
The assertion explained Goodson was shot by officers all through the confrontation and was subsequently pronounced dead.
The condition company did not describe what led to the preliminary phone to the house.
“Police bout to shoot me down in my personal garden,” a message posted early Sunday on Goodson’s Fb account browse, news stores, WIAT and al.com noted.
The point out company is reviewing the taking pictures and will turn its conclusions in excess of to the Bibb County district lawyer.
The 2017 podcast, which received a Peabody Award, told the tale of an Alabama male named John B. McLemore, who died by suicide just before the present arrived out. McLemore’s use of an expletive to describe his hometown presents the podcast its abbreviated title.
“S-Town” begins telling the story of a reputed killing and also yet another death and winds up concentrating on the eccentric McLemore, a restorer of antique clocks, and his tortured romantic relationship with the town of Woodstock. Quite a few persons in his existence ended up also featured, which includes Goodson.
“Because you know, I ain’t at any time experienced no daddy worth a damn. He’s just about the only daddy I have acquired,” Goodson mentioned of McLemore in the the 3rd episode of the podcast.
Woodstock, with a inhabitants of about 1,500 people today, is located about 35 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of the key city of Birmingham.
“I know that every person wishes solutions and facts, myself integrated,” Woodstock Mayor Jeff Dodson claimed in a assertion Monday. “Tyler was nicely acknowledged and loved by myself, his relatives and this local community. That like extends considerably beyond thanks to the S-Town podcast.
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“Please recall at this time that he is so substantially extra than a character to the fans who loved him. This youthful guy was a father, son, brother and pal to several,” the mayor included.
Julie Synder, the govt producer of “S-Town” declined to straight away remark when attained by electronic mail.
Goodson in 2017 obtained a suspended sentence immediately after pleading responsible to burglary and theft rates accusing him of using products from McLemore’s home soon after his loss of life. Goodson, prior to pleading guilty, experienced maintained he was retrieving merchandise that belonged to him.
Goodson told The Associated Press in 2017 that the podcast had brought a deluge of focus on him and the town, but neither have carried out him any favors.
“It’s a sad tale, primarily if you’re section of it,” Goodson reported.
