GG NEWS Bureau
NEW YORK, 18th April. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency on Monday said the deadly rampage took place in the city of Dadeville late Saturday night at the birthday party, in a statement issued.
The authorities said that 4 people dead and 28 others injured during a mass shooting at a birthday party in the US state of Alabama.
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Dadeville has a population of 3,200 people, a small, rural city about 45 miles northeast of state Montgomery.
Sgt. Jeremy J. Burkett said “There were four lives tragically lost in this incident, and there’s been a multitude of injuries.”
Burkett said in a news conference that there was a “wide variety of injuries that were sustained” during the incident and some of the victims remain in critical condition.
“Please understand this is also a very fluid situation. We have been getting continuous updates throughout the day and we are absolutely trying to confirm and understand everyone that was in the venue there,” he said.
Burkett said they were still speaking with witnesses and trying to gather information about the shooting.
Police did not release any details about a suspect or a motive during the news conference.
Philstavious Dowdell one of the victim a high school football player and the brother of the birthday girl, said Ben Hayes, the football team’s chaplain, and Keenan Cooper, who was the DJ at the party when the gunfire broke out.
Cooper said that Dowdell was about to graduate high school next month and earned a scholarship to play football at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama.
The teen was “kind of like the hometown hero”, he added.
Alabama shooting took place the same day when the shots were fired into a crowd at a park in Louisville, Kentucky. Two people were killed and four others wounded.
The incident marked the Louisville’s second mass shooting in less than a week.
According to authorities, on April 10, a gunman killed 5 people and injured several others at Louisville’s Old National Bank
According to the Gun Violence Archive, US seen 163 mass shootings in the first 15 weeks of 2023.
The average of over 1.5 mass shootings occurred every day so far this year.
President Joe Biden renewed his calls for tougher gun laws after the incident.
Biden in a statement released by the White House on Sunday asked “What has our nation come to when children cannot attend a birthday party without fear?”
