Public safety officers often talk about the “what ifs,” said Houston County Sheriff’s Deputy Bradley Shaw.

GRANBERRY CROSSROADS – Bradley Shaw stoops down in the gravel and feels the red sand at Granberry Crossroads, where Henry County Road 55 crosses Alabama Highway 134.

Southeast Alabama Medical Center spokesman Steve Pearce told the Associated Press early this morning that injured Henry County Sheriff’s Deputy Ted Yost remains in critical condition.

HENRY COUNTY - A Headland police officer is dead and a Henry County Sheriff’s deputy was in critical condition late Friday night after they were shot Friday evening by a Granberry’s Crossroads resident.