Huge manhunt underway after horror mass shooting rocked Birmingham with four killed and at least 18 injured during night of bloodshed in popular cigar lounge

A monolithic manhunt is underway arsenic constabulary hunt for the culprits of a mass shooting that killed 4 radical successful Alabama overnight.

Gunfire erupted successful the Five Points South amusement territory extracurricular Hush hookah and cigar lounge successful Birmingham just aft 11pm connected Saturday nighttime - injuring astatine slightest 18 others. 

Two men and a pistillate were killed astatine the country in the 2000 artifact of Magnolia Avenue, adjacent the University of Alabama, portion a 4th antheral unfortunate died successful hospital.

Police judge aggregate gunmen liable for the horrific wide shooting - but nary suspects person been arrested arsenic of Sunday morning. 

It is believed the shooting was not random and stemmed from an isolated incidental wherever aggregate victims were caught successful the crossfire.

Detectives are investigating whether the gunmen - who is inactive connected the escaped - walked up to the victims oregon drove by, Officer Truman Fitzgerald said. 

'Rest assured, we are going to bash everything we perchance tin to uncover, place and hunt down whoever was liable for preying connected our people,' Fitzgerald added.

Crime Stoppers is offering a reward up to $5,000 for accusation starring to an arrest. Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone the Birmingham Police Department Homicide Division straight astatine 205-254-1764.

An further 18 gunshot victims with injuries ranging from non-life-threatening to life-threatening were identified and treated astatine section hospitals.

The University of Alabama astatine Birmingham Hospital is treating 11 of the victims, Hannah Echols, a infirmary spokesperson told CNN. 

'We person dozens of gunshot victims from this area,' Fitzgerald said. 'I'm told astatine slightest 4 of those gunshot victims are life-threatening, the others person assorted injuries.' 

Streets person been blocked disconnected successful the surrounding country arsenic constabulary proceed their probe into the incident. 

Fitzgerald revealed that section authorities person reached retired to the FBI and ATF for assistance. 

Birmingham constabulary person asked that businesses successful the section country supply immoderate surveillance footage they mightiness have, and requested that the nationalist scope retired to them with immoderate applicable information. 

Five Points South is simply a fashionable country known for its nightlife venues adjacent the University of Alabama astatine Birmingham campus.

Fitzgerald said the wide shootings 'have much to bash with civilization than they bash criminality,' adding that 'we're seeing acold excessively galore arguments being settled by bullets.' 

Witnesses described a chaotic country arsenic constabulary worked to incorporate the country and adjutant victims.

'I walked up erstwhile it was conscionable ending, due to the fact that everybody was screaming, determination was radical crying,' Dajon Singleton told WVTM.

Police judge Glock switches were utilized successful the shooting. These devices springiness the ability to power betwixt semi-automatic and afloat automatic erstwhile attached to the backmost of a Glock.

'Glock switches are the fig 1 nationalist information contented successful our metropolis and State. Though amerciable nether national law, determination is nary authorities instrumentality that makes Glock switches illegal,' Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said Sunday.

'Every Mayor, Police Chief, Sheriff, and District Attorney I cognize wants Glock switches outlawed. Converting a semi-automatic limb into a afloat automatic limb that discharges each bullets wrong seconds doesn’t beryllium connected our home streets.'

The U.S. Attorney's Office and the ATF partnered with Birmingham's constabulary main and politician to motorboat 'Operation Flip the Switch' - a programme to get Glock switches disconnected the streets, reported WVTM.

'Where we utilized to spot a twelve oregon little ammunition casings connected the scene, we're seeing 75 to 100 oregon adjacent much than 100 connected a transgression scene, because, arsenic you'll spot after, soon however rapidly these rounds are fired from these weapons,' Chief Scott Thurmond.

'There's a batch of harm that tin beryllium done precise rapidly due to the fact that of these weapons. As the ATF conscionable said, there's nary spot for these things successful our metropolis oregon successful our authorities oregon our country.' 

There person been much than 400 wide shootings crossed the US this year, according to Gun Violence Archive, which defines a wide shooting arsenic an incident in which 4 oregon much radical are injured oregon killed.

Enterprise High School and Enterprise Career & Technology Center successful Alabama was placed connected lockdown after ammunition was recovered connected field connected September 5.

The lockdown followed the bloodbath astatine Apalachee which near an further 9 radical injured alongside the 4 fatalities.

Students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, some 14 and teachers Christina Irimie, 53, and Richard Aspinwall, 39, were named arsenic the victims.

Suspected gunman Colt Gray, 14, has been charged with murder.

Three radical were killed and astatine slightest 12 were near injured successful southwest Alabama aft a May Day enactment turned violent.

Andre Reid with the Baldwin County Investigation Division told WALA-TV that astir 1,000 radical were attending the solemnisation adjacent Stockton connected May 11 erstwhile an altercation started and gunfire erupted.

Reid said astir of the victims were 'younger people' but determination was nary contiguous accusation disposable connected whether immoderate arrests had been made.

'According to witnesses, the lawsuit was peaceful until an statement took place, which led to astatine slightest 1 taxable shooting aggregate rounds into the ample crowd,' said Reid.