Manhunt Ends With Arrest of Suspect in Scottsboro Police Shooting
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
July 28, 2025
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. A Scottsboro police officer has been shot in the line of duty, and after a short manhunt, police have the shooter is in custody.
Police said that the search for the suspect accused of shooting the police officer ended abruptly on Saturday night just after 10:00 p.m. and that Daniel Victor McCarn, the shooter was in custody.
At a press conference at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Lt. Coty Durham said a business on Old Larkinsville Road called in a tip that they believed McCarn was nearby. After checking surveillance video, police confirmed that McCarn was indeed the person spotted. Officers launched a drone with heat tracking technology and were able to track him to a wooded area near some railroad tracks.
McCarn was taken into custody without incident. The spot of his capture on old Larkinsville Road is about 5 miles from his last confirmed location early Saturday morning near Highway 72 and County Park Road.
Before police captured him, Durham stated that investigators had no reason to believe that McCarn had gotten very far from the scene. “Within a very minimal timeframe, we rendered aid and set up a perimeter to try to contain the suspect” Durham told reporters. “We felt like he could potentially be there, so we didn’t want to leave that area until we had some type of extra or outlying information that he could have potentially gotten out of that area.”
This all started just before 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, when officers responded to a domestic incident on Ruth Street.
Authorities said a suspect fled the scene, prompting a police pursuit.
According to the Scottsboro Police, the suspect crashed his car at the intersection of U.S. Highway 72 and County Park Road.
Officers said the suspect began firing shots, which hit an officer involved in the pursuit. Then the suspect fled on foot.
The suspect was identified as 29-year-old Daniel Victor McCarn of Huntsville. Durham said the Scottsboro Police Department has no record of any previous interactions with him. A search of Alabama court records shows only two minor traffic violations. Both were in Jackson County – one in 2017 and another in 2022.
According to Scottsboro Police, the officer who was shot is being treated at Huntsville Hospital. The officer’s injuries are non-life-threatening. “He is doing okay” Durham said Saturday night. “He had to undergo a procedure earlier, but the injuries he sustained were not life threatening so he’s hopeful to make a recovery and we hope to be seeing him real soon.”
Durham says the search grid did not change much during the manhunt. “The football stadium, Piggly Wiggly, Foodland, County Park Taco Bell area, the wooded area, that’s where we set our original perimeter.” Durham said Saturday night, less than an hour before the capture.
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