Alabama Detective Charged in 'Love Triangle' Murder

A detective in Birmingham, Alabama, has been charged with murder in a "love triangle gone wrong."

Birmingham police responding to an alert of shots fired, arrived at the scene to discover that a woman sitting in an unmarked police car with an off-duty detective, had been fatally shot several times, police said.

The victim, identified by Daily Beast as Kanisha Necole Fuller, was rushed to UAB Hospital, where she died Saturday morning. The unidentified off-duty male detective was not hurt.

Police arrested Alfreda Fluker, who had served the force for 15 years in the crime prevention unit, hours later. Fluker was booked on multiple charges including murder. State investigators have been called in as local police cannot take cases where one of their own is involved.

Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith said at a press conference that it was not an announcement he wanted to make but "it’s about the facts and realities of life."

Details of the "love triangle gone wrong" were scarce but Smith said it was "something that has been going on for a little while without our knowledge."

Smith added that police spent all of Friday night "tracking down everything we possibly could on this case," adding that, "even when it leads to one of our own we’re going to make the tough call and we’re going to take the right actions."

The Birmingham Police Department wrote in a tweet of the "difficult day" in which "three lives have been forever changed."

"Our thoughts, prayers and condolences go out to the victim and her family," the post concluded.