Muscle Shoals man behind bars after late night shooting

FLORENCE, Ala. (WAAY)- Annette Floyd and Wanda Mullins sit on their front porches and visit every day. Thursday night during their visit, they heard something they never expected to hear in their usually quiet neighborhood.

"I said he had a gun, but I didn't see the gun," said Mullins. "I just had a gut feeling that, that's what he was reaching for. He pulled something out and there was a pop pop and that's all I heard."

"When she hollered he's got a gun, we started running for inside," said Floyd. "It was very scary."

Shortly after, Florence police responded to the call at the corner of Central Avenue and Conner Street. When officers arrived, they found 50 year old Jerry Ivey shot to death in his truck in the middle of the road.

Ivey's sister was a passenger in the truck with him but was not injured.

Police said that less than hour later, Ivey's first cousin 42 year old Raymond Clemmons turned himself in for shooting Ivey in the chest.

Clemmons has since been charged with murder.

"These two were good friends for many years and had grown up around each other, so it's a troubling time for both of these families," said Florence Police Chief Ron Tyler.

"It's certainly a tragedy for the Clemmons and the Ivey family," said Tyler. "All of them being related as they are, you would hope that family members could sit down in a calm and rational manner and settle those differences in a different way. We certainly wouldn't want it to lead to this type of violence."

Clemmons is being held in the Lauderdale County Jail.

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Muscle Shoals man behind bars after late night shooting