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OXFORD, Alabama — Jamie Ellis, a Bynum man charged with homicide in connection with his mother’s death, told police he killed 69-year-old Shirley Ellis because “voices told him to,” Oxford police officials told the Anniston Star.

Oxford police Chief Bill Partridge told the Anniston Start that Jamie Ellis alerted officers to his mother’s death, walking up to the communications window at the Oxford Police Department on Monday afternoon to say he’d just killed his mother.

In other police, court and crime news across Alabama:

Meth smell ‘would knock you down’ as Sumiton residents arrested: Jerry Wayne Robinson, 49, and Gina Dingler, 42, of Sumiton have been charged in Walker County after police say they found 2 active methamphetamine labs and a large amount of finished meth product inside their home Tuesday, the Daily Mountain Eagle reports. Sumiton Assistant Police Chief Ryan Nix told the newspaper that when he arrived at the house where the meth was being made “the smell was so strong that it could knock you down.”

Tuscaloosa 21-year-old charged with child pornography: Investigators have charged a 21-year-old Tuscaloosa man, Perry Lamar Mott, with possessing child pornography, the Tuscaloosa News reports. Tuscaloosa police investigators, working with the Alabama Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, was able to subpoena Mott’s IP address and found at least 7 videos and more than 30 images depicting child pornography, the newspaper reported.

Speeding stop lands Fort Payne woman in jail on credit card charge: Tabatha Dean Mitchell, 28, of Fort Payne, was arrested on a stolen property charge and for illegal possession of a debit card, after she was stopped Monday on suspicion of speeding, the Gadsden Times reports. During a search of her vehicle, a deputy found 2 debit cards, payroll checks and a driver’s license belonging to an individual in Fort Payne, according to the report.

2 Tuscaloosa men charged in Atlanta-area murders: Two Tuscaloosa men — Kendell Lamonte Grant, 29, and Willie Brown Jr., 30, — are suspected in the 2008 shooting, stabbing and beating deaths of 2 men in Atlanta, the Tuscaloosa News reports. Walstene Butts, 33, and Raymond Johnson Jr., 30, whose bodies were found at a home southeast of downtown Atlanta on May 19, 2008, are believed to have been killed in a botched drug deal.

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