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many factors driving prices both up and down across the country.”

“As Ian nears the U.S. coast, some refiners could see limited disruption,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said Monday morning. “As a precaution, GasBuddy has activated its Fuel Availability Tracker for motorists in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. Hopefully, disruptions will be very limited due to Ian, but there remain

By Jake Arthur Chief Videographer

Police are still investigating the fatal shooting in the Wetumpka Walmart parking lot on Jan. 20.

Average gasoline prices in Alabama fell 2.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.19 per gallon Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,348 stations in Alabama. Prices in Alabama are 24.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 33.7 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 5.1 cents in the last week and stands at $4.88 per gallon.

Police were dispatched to the parking lot around 10:45 p.m. for a “shots fired” call.

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Once there, they found Centell Winston, 42 of Tallassee, dead of a gunshot wound in the driver seat of his vehicle.

According to Wetumpka police chief Greg Benton, this was not a random shooting.

“This was not random, not a random act,” said Benton. “We believe the victim and the perpetrator knew each other.”

This is the first homicide in Wetumpka in over three years. The last homicide in the city took place in 2018.

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