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A small-town Alabama mayor died by apparent suicide just days after a conservative news site published pictures of him allegedly wearing women's clothes and makeup, officials said Sunday. Smiths Station Mayor F.L. 'Bubba' Copeland, who was also a pastor at First Baptist Church of Phenix City, fatally shot himself and was pronounced dead at 5:01 p.m. CT on Friday, Lee County Coroner Daniel Sexton said in a statement to NBC News. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday.
' A rep for 1819 News could not be immediately reached for comment on Sunday. Copeland was best known for leading his town through a 2019 tornado that killed 23 people in eastern Alabama. 'I am so saddened at the death of my friend Mayor Bubba Copeland,' Jones said. 'He was a good man and a great mayor who led the small town of Smith Station through the tough times of a devastating tornado a few years ago.
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