The Warrior City Council on Monday commended a police officer for saving an inmate’s life.

Councilman Chuck Mosley read aloud a letter from Police Chief Ray Horn detailing a recent event in which a female inmate apparently tried to commit suicide by hanging herself with a bed sheet from a top bunk.

The letter stated that Horn and Officer Jimmy Rogers were in the dispatch office when they noticed a female inmate banging on the steel wall. She appeared to be having a seizure and started falling off the top bunk.

Horn and Rogers ran to the cell and saw that she had a bed sheet tied around her neck, with the other end tied around the bunk post.

Another female inmate was holding up the woman who had fallen from the bunk in an attempt to keep her from hanging.

Horn and Rogers were unable to untie the sheet, so Rogers ran back to the dispatch office and got a pair of scissors while Horn held up the woman in order to keep enough slack in the sheet for her to breathe.

Rogers cut the sheet from the bed and from around the woman’s neck.

He then administered chest compressions to the woman and she started breathing again, according to Horn.

Paramedics arrived and took the inmate to UAB Hospital. She had suffered only bruises and a cut to her head, but she was held for psychological evaluation.

“Officer Rogers should be commended for his fast reaction not only to cut her down, but also performing life-saving measures,” Horn wrote. “His fast thinking and actions saved this woman’s life.”

Mosley also read a second letter that he wrote to thank Warrior Police officers for the way they handled a fatal shooting incident on Friday.

An officer, who has not been identified, shot and killed 28-year-old Adam Madison following an altercation at a traffic checkpoint. The officer was treated at UAB Hospital for minor injuries. Mosley’s wife, Sherry, drove to UAB Hospital to check on the officer while city officials were tied up at the scene.

The incident is under investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation.

Mosley said Warrior officers acted with professionalism and kept the scene from becoming chaotic in the hours after the incident.

In other business, the council approved a $2,460 bid by Jerome Cannon Construction to remove and dispose of debris at 9646 Hwy. 31, which is the remains of a house burned by the fire department earlier this month.

The council also appointed Brad Fuller to the Commercial Development Board.

City attorney Joe Wilson was on hand during the works session to discuss impending litigation regarding sales taxes, and to talk about a sidewalk ordinance aimed at keeping city sidewalks free of clutter. No action was taken on either measure.