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This just in, as reported by FOX6:
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) – A Walker County man was sitting in his vehicle on Wednesday, when a bomb exploded. The victim is now in serious condition at UAB Hospital.
Agents with the ATF and FBI have been called in to assist police to find out who planted the explosive device.
This all happened around 6:00 pm at a home on Crest Avenue in the Walker County community of Parrish.
Walker County’s Sheriff says it is unknown what type of explosive device it was or how it was detonated. He did say the explosion was confined to the inside of the truck.
Sheriff John Mark Tirey says this incident is shocking.
Yes, indeed!
My name is Robert Lee Conner. My mother, Paula Faye Conner, was killed in a similar bombing outside People’s Hospital where she worked as a nurse. She came out of the hospital, got into my grandfather’s truck (her car no longer worked because my father, Don Conner, had placed sugar in her gas tank just prior to kidnapping my brother and I just after the divorce), turned the key and was killed in the explosion. I was 8.
When I asked my father on my 18th birthday what had happened and if he was involved, he replied only, “If you look for bad things, you’re going to find them.” He had an iron clad alibi and 2 attorneys waiting when they came to question him. He was never held accountable in her death. His mother, Millie Conner who lives in Cordova knows what happened, but she won’t tell me. My father pays her bills and she keeps her silence.
These contract killings have been going on in the Walker County area for decades. Take my word for it. I grew up without any parents and was raised by my mother’s parents, the child of their daughter and the man who paid to have their daughter murdered. I took all the rage they could never give to him. I still have the scar from where he hit me in the back of the head with a claw hammer. But for all the damage I suffered at their hands, at least I could understand them. I could forgive them. After all, I look a lot like my Dad and they were mad with rage and grief. But for all my life, I have struggled and failed to understand why these men were paid to kill my mother. How they could kill a complete stranger for money can have no reason. It is simply evil. I take some small comfort in the fact that, after 30 years, I know the names of the men who killed her. I congratulate the law enforcement professional who caught these men. Perhaps, at long last, there will be some fragment of justice in all of this. I eagerly await the results of this investigation and pray that EVERYONE involved is brought the attention of the law.