From P.K. Johnson, Millbrook Chief of Police
On July 21, 2018 Millbrook police responded to the 4000 block of Grandview Road with regard to a subject shot at that location. Responding officers discovered a 51-year-old female and her 21-year-old son had been shot during a domestic dispute, leaving the female with life threatening injuries and her son sustaining gun shots to his extremities. The suspect took the victim’s vehicle when he fled the scene. The suspect was identified as Louis Stinson Jr., then a 40-year-old Montgomery resident.
Based on information developed during the investigation, investigators with the department’s Criminal Investigative Unit obtained warrants of arrest against the offender for Domestic Violence 1st Degree (Assault), Assault 2nd Degree and Robbery 1st. The victim’s vehicle was recovered near the Alabama/Georgia state line, which led law enforcement to focus their efforts in that area.
On July 25, 2018, Louis Stinson Jr. was taken into custody at the Millbrook Police Department, where he surrendered to law enforcement without incident. Stinson advised investigators he felt and succumbed to the pressure of being sought by multiple law enforcement agencies attempting to locate and apprehend him, as well as the exposure he received from news and social medias. He was placed in the Elmore County Jail under a $95,000.00 bond.
On March 24, 2021 Stinson appeared in Elmore County Circuit Court to face the charges associated with this 2018 case. Stinson was found guilty on all three charges, being Domestic Violence 1st Degree, Assault 2nd Degree and Robbery 1st Degree. Stinson is scheduled to be sentenced on April 29, 2021.
Quote – Chief P.K. Johnson
We are certainly pleased with the guilty verdict in this case. Our police officers and our Criminal Investigative Unit did an outstanding job in this case, as did our District Attorney’s Office prosecutors. That stated, this is yet another example of the failure of the criminal justice system to keep violent offenders incarcerated and off our streets. This individual had an extensive and violent criminal history prior to committing these crimes, which include prior arrests on felony assault, domestic violence offenses, charges of violating a Family Protection Order, as well as multiple resisting arrest charges. The offender committed the crimes in this case, having served less than 4 years of a 10-year sentence on a previous felony assault case.
Let me be clear, I am in no way blaming our District Attorney’s Office or our Judges. We are blessed to have some of the best prosecutors and Judges that you could ask for here in the 19th Judicial Circuit. There are sentencing guidelines that the Judges must adhere to, which are mandated by state law. During my 32 plus years in law enforcement, it has become increasingly difficult to keep habitual and even violent offenders incarcerated. Something has to change. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but like the old saying goes, “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…. It’s probably a Duck!”
In my opinion, people, that over a lifetime, demonstrate that they are violent towards others, commit multiple felony offenses, and that person refuses to modify their behavior, that person has demonstrated that they are a clear and present danger to innocent citizens and they have no business on our streets. Our law enforcement professionals, prosecutors and the judiciary know this. We know it because we see it daily. There needs to be dialog between law enforcement professionals, prosecutors, the judiciary, victims of violent crime and our State Legislators, to come up with a practical solution to preventing violent and career criminals from being allowed to continue to victimize our citizens, when in reality they’ve demonstrated on multiple occasions that they either have no intent or lack the ability to modify their criminal behavior and become productive members of society.
