Birmingham, Alabama mass shooting: $100K reward offered as mayor vows to ‘hunt down’ the ‘cowards’ responsible

Authorities in Alabama are present offering a combined $100,000 reward Monday for accusation surrounding a wide shooting successful Birmingham implicit the play that near 4 dormant and astatine slightest 17 others injured. 

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said the superior nonsubjective present is to "hunt down, capture, apprehension and convict the radical who are responsible" for the unit that erupted Saturday nighttime extracurricular a fashionable nightspot successful the city’s Five Points South district. As of Monday, nary suspects person been arrested. 

"As a assemblage we cannot springiness harmless harbor oregon structure to radical who privation to conscionable simply termination people. We can’t springiness them cover. They should not consciousness harmless successful our community. They should not consciousness harmless anywhere," Woodfin said during a quality conference, urging the nationalist to travel guardant with information. "It’s your clip to measurement up, and we request you." 

"You see, it’s casual to spot radical successful a enactment who are astir apt unarmed, due to the fact that to participate a nine you can’t person a limb connected you. And so, connected 1 hand, arsenic heinous arsenic this was, it was besides 1 of the astir cowardly things we person besides seen. They’re cowards," Woodfin continued. 

WHITE HOUSE CONDEMNS ALABAMA SHOOTING THAT POLICE SAY KILLED 4, WOUNDED 17 IN ALLEGED PAID ‘HIT’ 

A firefighter cleans humor stains disconnected the sidewalk extracurricular a nightclub successful Birmingham, Alabama, connected Sunday, Sept. 22, aft a wide shooting took place. (AP/Kim Chandler)

"Everyone who wants to play detective connected societal media, everyone successful the streets that's pointing the digit astatine constabulary and everyone else, this is your clip to measurement up. And determination is an ample reward for you doing your portion arsenic a assemblage member," helium besides said. 

The combined reward is being offered by the FBI and Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama. 

Police Chief Scott Thurmond said astatine the quality league that constabulary are inactive sifting done tips and that 5 of the injured victims stay hospitalized. 

The shooting occurred connected the sidewalk and thoroughfare extracurricular Hush Lounge, wherever humor stains were inactive disposable connected the sidewalk Sunday morning, according to The Associated Press. 

MASS SHOOTING LEAVES 4 DEAD IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 

Police said they judge aggregate gunmen opened occurrence soon aft 11 p.m. Saturday successful the city's Five Points South amusement district. (WBRC)

Thurmond antecedently said authorities judge the shooting targeted 1 of the radical who was killed, perchance successful a murder-for-hire. A conveyance pulled up and "multiple shooters" got retired and began firing, past fled, helium said. 

"Some of the individuals that were killed person extended transgression histories," Thurmond besides told reporters connected Monday. "And due to the fact that of that, there’s often times information from others and there’s radical who are consenting to wage to person them killed. And truthful that’s portion of it."

Police said astir 100 ammunition casings were recovered. Thurmond said law enforcement was moving to find what weapons were used, but that they judge immoderate of the gunfire was "fully automatic." Investigators besides were trying to find whether anyone fired back, creating crossfire. 

Officers recovered 2 men and a pistillate connected a sidewalk with gunshot wounds, and they were pronounced dormant astatine the scene. An further antheral gunshot unfortunate was pronounced dormant astatine a hospital, according to police. 

Hush is simply a hookah lounge successful Birmingham's Five Points neighborhood. (AP/Vasha Hunt)

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Police identified the 3 victims recovered connected the sidewalk arsenic Anitra Holloman, 21, of the Birmingham suburb of Bessemer, Tahj Booker, 27, of Birmingham, and Carlos McCain, 27, of Birmingham. The 4th unfortunate has yet to beryllium identified to the public.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.