Former Decatur Police Officer Mac Marquette will be in court on Tuesday to argue he shot Stephen Perkins in self-defense.

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — Former Decatur Police Officer Mac Marquette is now headed to trial for murder after a Morgan County judge ruled he did not act in self-defense when he shot Stephen Perkins.

Nearly two months after Stephen Perkins wife, Catrela, filed an amended complaint against the City of Decatur and four former ...

The murder trial of an Alabama police officer who fatally shot an armed Black man in his front yard will depend on whether the officer had the authority to be at the man's house in the first place.

Attorneys for Mac Marquette, the former Decatur cop accused in the death of Steve Perkins, want his trial continued.

Attorneys for former Decatur Police Officer Mac Marquette have asked a Morgan County Judge to move back the murder trial ...

Morgan County Circuit Judge Charles Elliott denied Marquette’s motion, writing in the court filing that no crime was being ...

The move means Mac Marquette will stand trial for the murder of Steve Perkins, who was killed during a botched repossession attempt in October of 2023. Read Elliott’s immunity decision below or by ...

Mac Marquette, 25, is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Steve Perkins shortly before 2 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2023, while accompanying a tow-truck driver to repossess Perkins’ pickup truck at ...

Mac Marquette can appeal the decision. One of the police officers involved in the fatal 2023 shooting of Steve Perkins outside his Decatur, Alabama, home was denied his request for the case to be ...

The motion cites the need for time to appeal the March ruling denying the former Decatur police officer immunity.

Former Decatur police officer Mac Marquette, charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Steve Perkins, on Friday filed a ...