SPD chief investigator Lt. Chris Carden said Ferlandez Lamar Cook, 18, of Sylacauga, has been charged with murder in the Tuesday evening shooting death of Trevan Hale, 30, also of Sylacauga.
District Judge Jeb Fannin set a bond of $100,000 on Cook for the murder charge around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Carden said at approximately 7:45 p.m. Sylacauga police received a call in reference to a person being shot in the 400 block of East 6th Street.
Emergency personnel arrived to find Hale suffering from a gunshot wound. Carden said it appeared to be a bullet from a small-caliber handgun.
Hale was transported by Sylacauga Ambulance to the helicopter landing pad on 4th Street to be airlifted to a Birmingham hospital, but when his condition worsened, the ambulance transported him to Coosa Valley Medical Center.
Hale was pronounced dead by emergency room personnel a short time after his arrival, and his family was notified by investigators at the emergency room.
Carden said Cook arrived at the emergency room approximately 45 minutes after Hale had been transported there. Cook was not at the shooting scene when police arrived. He had been transported to the hospital by private vehicle and was also suffering from a gunshot wound.
Carden said Cook was treated for his minor wounds and was arrested by investigators on the charge of murdering Hale.
It appears, Carden said, the men got into some kind of altercation which led to the shooting, but what caused the altercation is still under investigation.
Anyone with additional information concerning this case or other ongoing investigations is asked to call the Sylacauga Police Department Investigations Division at 256-401-2464 or report anonymously to the Sylacauga Police Tip Line at 256-249-4716.
Carden said he believed this was the first homicide case Sylacauga police has worked since the death of Steven Chad Faulkner on Dec. 2, 2007.
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