Holtville’s Futral Alabama principal of the year

Thomas Parker of Elmore died early Thursday morning and Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin said Parker’s 21-year-old grandson, Jeremiah Long, pulled the trigger.

“Long went into the bedroom and took a cell phone,” Franklin said. “He reentered the bedroom about 3 a.m. demanding the keys to a van. The grandfather refused and there was an argument. Long fired a handgun once at the chest.” Franklin said the grandmother had hidden a phone and was scared to use it for a while.

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The Alabama Association of Secondary School Principals (AASSP) named Holtville High School principal Kyle Futral the 2022 Alabama High School Principal of the Year.

schoolwide assembly at Holtville High School. Elmore County Su perintendent Richard Dennis was in attendance for the presentation.

“Kyle Futral is an exception al principal and is very proac tive and innovative in his think ing and approaches to managing his school,” Dennis said,

The High School Principal of the Year award was presented to Futral on Friday, Jan. 28 during a

“She first called her daughter,” Franklin said. “It took between 45 minutes and an hour after the

As principal of Holtville High School, Futral has transformed dents, caused the school culture to