Ex-Mobile Councilman Arrested After Rape, Murder Threats at Hooters

A former Mobile city councilman is accused of threatening to rape and kill two employees at a Hooters restaurant on Airport Boulevard, then getting arrested nearly two weeks later and quickly posting bond. William Carroll Jr., 56, was booked into Mobile Metro Jail on two charges related to making terrorist threats following the Oct. 14 incident, and he is due in court next month.

According to FOX10 News, court documents say Carroll told a female employee at the Airport Boulevard Hooters, “I rape little girls like you,” and “I dig ditches and kill people before.” A Hooters employee called 911 that day to have Carroll trespassed from the restaurant, and police issued him a trespass warning on the spot and told him to leave.

A second criminal complaint, reported by NBC 15, alleges Carroll separately told Hooters manager Dawn Bryant, “I kill people for a living and rape little girls like her.” Carroll was not arrested that day. The station reports he is now facing two misdemeanor charges of making terrorist threats, though the cause of the charge — Alabama’s statute on making a terrorist threat — classifies the offense as a Class C felony, and the available reporting does not reconcile that discrepancy.

Arrest Came Nearly Two Weeks Later

Carroll was arrested at Cedar and Conti streets nearly two weeks after the Hooters incident, per the same FOX10 account. He was released from Metro Jail on a $6,000 bond a little over an hour after being booked, and court records show he has a hearing scheduled for Nov. 12.

Hooters addressed the incident in a statement to FOX10, saying it was aware of what happened at its Mobile location on Oct. 14. The company said the person involved made inappropriate and disturbing comments to a staff member who reported the behavior to a manager, and that he was immediately asked to leave while authorities were notified.

A Councilman Ousted at the Ballot Box

Carroll previously represented District 2 in northeast Mobile on the City Council before losing his seat to Samantha Ingram in the August 2025 election, a race run without party tickets since Mobile’s municipal elections are nonpartisan. He went on to file a suit challenging the results, claiming Ingram did not meet the statutory residency requirement to qualify as a candidate and alleging she had not voted in Alabama since 2006 and was registered to vote in Georgia.

That challenge did not succeed. As FOX10 News reported last November, a judge dismissed the legal challenge and ruled that Ingram was a qualified candidate for the District 2 seat.

The New York Post, which first drew national attention to the Hooters allegations, reported that Hooters and the Mobile City Council could not immediately be reached for comment on its story, as detailed in the New York Post’s coverage of the case.