Former Mobile councilman William Carroll is accused of making graphic statements about rape and killing while at a Hooters restaurant. He now faces two counts of second-degree making terrorist threats.
A former Mobile city councilman is facing criminal charges after Hooters employees told police he made graphic statements about raping girls and killing people inside the restaurant. The allegations are disturbing enough that this is one of those stories where the location somehow makes the police report feel even more surreal.
Mobile police have charged former council member William Carroll with two counts of second-degree making terrorist threats. Court documents say the incident happened October 14 at a Hooters on Airport Boulevard.
According to those records, Carroll allegedly told one female employee that he raped girls like her and claimed he had dug ditches and killed people. Authorities say he made a similar statement to another employee, again referring to killing people and raping girls.
The allegations have not been adjudicated, and Carroll has not been convicted of the charges. FOX10 says it was waiting for comment from his attorney, so the court case will determine what prosecutors can actually prove.
The 911 call from the restaurant shows how seriously employees took the remarks. One worker told the dispatcher that a man was claiming he raped girls like her staff and buried people for a living, then asked police to get there quickly.
The employee also said she planned to hold onto his check until officers arrived without making him suspicious. That is an extraordinary amount of crisis management for someone whose job description presumably did not include ‘keep alleged murder braggart calmly waiting for the police.’
Police responded that night and issued Carroll a trespass warning, ordering him to leave the restaurant. He was not arrested until nearly two weeks later, when officers took him into custody on October 28.
Jail records show Carroll was released on a $6,000 bond a little more than an hour after he was booked. Court records list a November 12 hearing, and the district attorney’s office is handling the case because Carroll previously worked for the city.
Carroll served Mobile’s District 2 and lost his reelection bid in August 2025. Mobile municipal elections are nonpartisan, so there is no useful red-versus-blue angle to force onto a story that is already strange enough without campaign-color coding.
After losing, Carroll challenged the winner’s eligibility in court and argued that she did not meet residency requirements. That dispute reportedly cost him tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, giving his post-council career considerably more courtroom content than most former local officials would prefer.
Hooters said employee safety and community safety were its top concerns and that authorities were notified after the incident. The company also said it provided support and security to employees involved.
The most important distinction is that the court records describe alleged threats and statements, not proof that Carroll actually committed the murders or rapes he allegedly claimed. Prosecutors charged him over the threatening comments themselves.
Still, the 911 transcript is remarkable because the employee sounds less like someone reacting to random drunken nonsense and more like someone carefully buying time until police arrive. Whatever happened in that restaurant, the staff clearly did not find it funny.
Carroll now has a court date and two misdemeanor terrorist-threat charges hanging over him. Hooters has probably had stranger nights, but very few have ended with a former city councilman becoming the subject of a district attorney’s case.
