WATCH: Officials release details on Dale County murder

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - Officials released details on a weekend murder in Dale County.

Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum addressed the media Tuesday morning.

Authorities booked 29-year-old James Johnson into the Dale County Jail for the murder of 57-year-old Sherry Clark.

Sheriff Bynum said Clark was found forcibly restrained in her bedroom. Preliminary autopsy reports revealed severe head and neck trauma. An official cause of death is pending.

Johnson was recently released from a Florida jail. He was staying with relatives who lived next door to Clark at the time of the murder.

Watch the full press conference in the video player above this story.

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