MONTGOMERY – On behalf of Sheriff Jody Wade and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Austin Patrick Hall, 26, was arrested at approximately 7:30 a.m. Thursday, June 30, following the shooting of two Bibb County Sheriff’s Deputies, which occurred on Wednesday, June 29. Hall was located and taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force near the 1200 Block of Bulldog Ben Road in Brierfield. Hall was transported and placed into a local area jail.
Hall’s arrest and capture was a joint operation led by the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division, Aviation Unit and Special Agents with ALEA’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) along with officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Perry County Sheriff’s Office, Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, Chilton County Sheriff’s Office, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Wilcox County Sheriff’s Office, Clarke County Sheriff’s Office, Vestavia Hills Police Department, Demopolis Police Department, Thorsby Police Department, Moundville Police Department, Pelham Police Department and officers with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, USMS Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Alabama Department of Corrections Law Enforcement Services Division (LESD) K-9 Bureau, all responded to the scene and assisted with the search.
