Mobile Man Fired Gunshots Into Home That Caught Fire
By Dale Hines
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
April 7, 2026
MOBILE, AL. A scene right out of a movie in one part of Mobile has ended with the arrest of a man armed with an automatic firearm.
Mobile police officers first responded to the area of the 1500 block of Plover Street in March for a house fire where the residents escaped but one was overcome by smoke inhalation.
After firefighters extinguished the blaze at around 4:30 a.m., police and fire personnel investigated the cause of the fire and determined that an oxygen tank had exploded inside the house.
The cause was determined to be that it had been struck by gunfire and caused an explosion.
Mobile Police Department officers have arrested a man in connection with a shooting that led to a house fire on Plover Street in March.
20-year-old Jeremiah Timothy Turner of Mobile has been arrested and booked into the Metro Jail and charged with converting a pistol into a machine gun and discharging a gun into an occupied building.
Turner could face additional charges including federal gun charges.
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