Published: November 16, 2007 07:34 pm      

Police name man shot in Riverside shooting Tuesday

RIVERSIDE — Police have released the name of a man who was shot and killed by another in Riverside Tuesday night.

Jerry Wayne Bratton, a 40-year-old white male from Crockett, was killed just before 8 Tuesday night when another man — whose name county officials are not releasing — shot him in front of the Valero station on Highway 19, just over the Trinity River bridge.

Lt. Charlie Perkins with the Walker County Sheriff’s Office said that when police responded to the scene they found Bratton with lying on the ground with one gunshot wound to the torso.

Look for the complete story in the Saturday, Nov. 17, edition of The Huntsville Item.

Further information will be posted to itemonline.com as soon as it becomes available.