Published: September 6, 2018

A LAUDERDALE COUNTY MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER AFTER THREATENING HIS BROTHER AND SHOOTING AT HIM AND SOME FRIENDS TUESDAY MORNING.  ACCORDING TO THE TIMES DAILY, THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AT A RESIDENCE ON ALABAMA 64 IN THE GREENHILL COMMUNITY IN WHICH JARMAINE K. DECATUR, 19, OF FLORENCE, IS ACCUSED OF GOING TO THE HOME AND FALLING ASLEEP ON THE COUCH.   DECATUR'S BROTHER AND HIS FRIENDS RETURNED TO THE PROPERTY AND ADVISED DECATUR TO LEAVE WHICH HE REFUSED.  THREATS WERE EXCHANGED BETWEEN BROTHERS BEFORE DECATUR WENT TO HIS VEHICLE AND RETRIEVED A GUN.  THE BROTHER AND THE TWO FRIENDS RAN OUT THE BACK AND DECATUR REPORTEDLY FOLLOWED THE MEN OUTSIDE SHOOTING AT THEM AS THEY WERE RUNNING.  WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED DECATUR WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT INCIDENT.  DECATUR IS BEING HELD IN THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON 50 THOUSAND DOLLARS BOND AND IF CONVICTED COULD FACE 10 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE.