A City of Prichard sanitation employee was shot while on the job Tuesday afternoon and is expected to face multiple charges after authorities say he exchanged gunfire with another driver during a roadside altercation.
According to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened near Dossett Lane and Jarrett Road around 2 p.m. Tuesday. Sheriff Paul Burch said sanitation worker Clifton Dubose, 54, allegedly used his city garbage truck to run a smaller vehicle carrying a man, woman and three children off the road.
When the man and woman confronted Dubose on the roadside, a verbal argument ensued. “Based on the investigative details we have right now, when the verbal argument ended, the male driver of the small vehicle was walking back toward his vehicle and the sanitation driver (Dubose) exited his vehicle and pointed a gun at the back of the male,” Burch said. “The female passenger got out of her vehicle and fired two shots, one striking the driver (Dubose).”
Dubose then allegedly opened fire on the couple, firing several rounds into their occupied vehicle. The three children were inside the vehicle at the time of the incident. No one else was injured.
Burch said Dubose’s driver’s license was either suspended or revoked at the time of the incident, and he was wanted on an outstanding domestic violence warrant — an issue that had previously come up at a Prichard City Council meeting on July 10 regarding city employees driving without valid licenses.
Dubose remained hospitalized in stable condition and, upon release, was expected to be booked into Metro Jail on five counts of reckless endangerment and five counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle.
Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis initially confirmed only that an unidentified sanitation worker had been injured in an on-the-job shooting. “Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his loved ones as we pray for a full and speedy recovery,” Davis said.