Alabama Shooting
USA: Four killed, many injured in Alabama shooting
New York, UNI/IBNS: Four people were killed and at least 28 more injured in a shooting in the small Alabama town of Dadeville, the United States, local TV stations reported on Sunday.
The shooting occurred at around 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday (GMT 0330 on Sunday), TV station WRBL cited the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency release as saying.
Local reports said that the shooting occurred at a dance studio during what seemed to be a teenager's birthday party.
Shots were fired at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio in the city of Dadeville. BBC said high school senior Phil Dowdell, a star athlete, has been named among the deceased by local media.
The cause of the shooting was unknown, as well as whether any suspects had been taken into custody.
In a horrifying turn of events, a teenager's birthday party at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville, Alabama, became the site of a mass shooting, leaving more than 20 people injured, according to witnesses and local media.#AlabamaShooting
— Alice Williams 💙 🫏🇺🇦🌊 (@williams95alice) April 16, 2023
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According to CNN, the Sweet 16 party turned into a scene of carnage claiming four lives and wounding 28 others.
If anyone has any information related to this incident, please have them contact the ALEA’s SBI crime information hotline at 1-800-392-8011 or email at sbi.investigations@alea.gov or contact Central Alabama Crime Stoppers at 1-833-AL1-STOP or at https://t.co/8IIQUXu5Hz.
— Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (@ALEAprotects) April 16, 2023
President Joe Biden in a statement expressed deep anguish. "What has our nation come to when children cannot attend a birthday party without fear?" Biden asked, in a statement released by the White House on Sunday.
Following is the press release by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency:
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