Update 7/25/25 11:37 am
TBI agents are investigating Thursday morning’s (7/24/25) officer-involved shooting in Wartburg. Preliminary information indicates the shooting happened at approximately 11:45am at a home in the 200 block of CCC Road, where Morgan County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a domestic disturbance. After they arrived, the deputies learned a male subject fled the home with a firearm. The deputies soon located the man, later identified as 48-year-old Michael Blalock, of Wartburg, in a nearby wooded area, where he reportedly brandished and shot his firearm. At least one deputy returned fire, striking the man, who was subsequently hospitalized. No law enforcement officers were hurt in the incident.