4 people killed, at least 18 more wounded in mass shooting in Birmingham, AL

Four radical were killed and astatine slightest 18 others wounded successful a shooting precocious Saturday extracurricular a nightclub successful Birmingham, Ala.

Multiple shooters pulled up successful a vehicle, hopped retired and unleashed gunfire connected a assemblage of people successful the city’s Five Points South amusement district, constabulary said.

The attackers past jumped backmost successful the conveyance and sped off, according to authorities. No suspects were successful custody by Sunday day and investigators did not publically place immoderate radical of interest.

The 4 victims were publically identified lone arsenic 3 men and 1 woman. Investigators said the shooting was apt targeted astatine 1 idiosyncratic but the assailants fired into a ample assemblage anyway.

Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond said the shooters whitethorn person been hired to termination a circumstantial person, according to section Fox affiliate WBRC. Cops judge the intended people was among the dead.

“Detectives judge the shooting was not random and stemmed from an isolated incidental wherever aggregate victims were caught successful the crossfire,” serviceman Truman Fitzgerald said successful a statement.

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Bystanders are seen successful Five Points South amusement territory aft a shooting successful Birmingham.

Cops responded to reports of gunfire astir 11 p.m. adjacent a agelong of bars, restaurants and clubs successful Birmingham’s Five Points South district, which is often crowded connected Saturday nights.

By the clip officers arrived, the suspects had fled and galore radical were lying wounded connected the sidewalk and street.

“We volition bash everything we perchance tin to marque definite we uncover, identify, and hunt down whoever is liable for preying connected our radical this morning,” Fitzgerald said. “These wide shootings person much to bash with civilization than criminality.”

Police asked anyone with accusation connected the shooting to travel guardant and assistance the investigation. Investigators confirmed the shooters utilized afloat automatic weapons and much than 100 slug casings were recovered astatine the scene, WBRC reported.

Mayor Randall Woodfin implied successful a Facebook station that the shooters utilized Glock switches to person semi-automatic handguns into afloat automatic weapons. Glock switches are amerciable astatine the national level but determination is nary authorities instrumentality banning them successful Alabama.

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