On the afternoon of June 22, 2021, Brad Burt Doleys, a 50-year-old White male and counselor at Mountain View Hospital since 2001, was fatally shot after a vehicle collision on the East Meighan Boulevard bridge near Hood Avenue in Gadsden, Alabama. The bumpers of the two vehicles may have been locked together, preventing an immediate departure from the scene. Doleys was taken to UAB Hospital and later died of his injuries.

Burnett was taken into custody without incident and initially charged with attempted murder; the charge was later upgraded to capital murder and he was booked into the Etowah County Detention Center held without bond. No motive had been announced. Memorial services were held for Doleys, remembered as a compassionate and humorous counselor; the legal case remained pending with no trial or final resolution reported in the period after the arrest.

If anyone witnessed the collision or the confrontation on the bridge, or has information about what happened that afternoon, please come forward.