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Michael Broady Jr. called 911 in August 2021 from Reform, Alabama, and told a dispatcher someone was trying to kill him. Officers from the Reform Police Department, the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, and the Carrollton Police Department answered. They held him on outstanding warrants, including a child-support hold out of Lamar County. He was pronounced dead at the Carrollton Hospital helipad. Five years later the federal lawsuit is no longer one block of defendants. Two officers have settled. Two deputies have not, and the mediation date that was supposed to test that split has already passed without a public dismissal.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Annemarie Carney Axon signed an order on May 28, 2026, dismissing with prejudice the claims against Reform officer Kallenna Homan and Austin Moss after the estate settled with them. The terms were not released. AL.com, citing a late-May joint status report, identified Moss as a Gordo police officer. WBRC’s later write-up described him as a Pickens County sheriff’s deputy. Both descriptions cannot be the agency he worked for that night. What the order does establish is that those two defendants are out. Claims against Pickens County deputies Brian Herd and Taylor Gregory stayed on the docket. A mediation before Magistrate Judge Gray M. Borden was set for 9 a.m. on July 30, 2026, at the Hugo L. Black United States Courthouse in Birmingham. Borden ordered both sides to file a confidential summary of the facts, the estimated value of the claims, and the status of earlier talks. As of late September 2026, local reporting has not published an order dismissing Herd or Gregory.<\/p>\n