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Joint session honors Shelby County deputy Brad Bush with 2025 Legislative Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement
Summary
In a joint session the legislature presented the 2025 Alabama Legislative Medal of Honor for law enforcement to Deputy Brad Bush of the Shelby County Sheriff's Office for his actions during a February 2024 incident in which he disarmed a shooter, according to the House resolution read into the record.
At a joint session the Alabama Legislature presented the 2025 Legislative Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement to Deputy Brad (Bradley) Bush of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.
Nut graf: The House and Senate honored Deputy Bush for an incident on Feb. 17, 2024, in which he engaged a man who produced a semiautomatic handgun, held on to the subject’s wrist after a shot was fired and restrained the subject until other deputies could secure the weapon, according to the resolution read in the joint session.
Secretary Hal Taylor and members of the House and Senate praised Deputy Bush’s “extraordinary courage,” and the resolution memorialized the sequence: an emergency call; deputies’ arrival; Bush’s observation of a bulge consistent with a weapon; Bush’s interception, the subject’s firing of a round that pierced a deputy’s jacket; Bush’s continued control of the subject and weapon until backup secured the scene. The House read a formal resolution honoring Bush’s actions and recognizing his family, and the clerk read the resolution text into the record.
The joint session included remarks by the governor, speaker and senate pro tem; the presentation concluded with Deputy Bush appearing before the joint session and giving brief remarks. The joint session adjourned after the ceremony.
