Birmingham taking pictures leaves ‘a number of’ victims, police say

Norman Ray

World Courant

4 folks had been killed and at the very least 18 injured in a taking pictures in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday evening, police mentioned.

The taking pictures, which occurred simply after 11 p.m. within the 2000 block of Magnolia Avenue South, within the 5 Factors South Leisure District, was “not random and the results of an remoted incident that left a number of victims caught within the crossfire,” police mentioned in a press release.

Police are trying to find a number of suspects who they are saying “opened hearth on a big group of people that had been exterior in a public place” after which fled in a car.

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“Our hearts exit to them as we course of this,” Thurmond mentioned.

Mayor Randall Woodfin referred to as for an finish to gun violence, saying his “primary precedence is the protection of the general public.”

“Do not inform me this cannot be solved — and on the identical time, do not inform me that is simply as much as regulation enforcement to unravel,” Woodfin mentioned. “Elected officers — native, statewide and nationwide — have an obligation to unravel this American disaster, this American epidemic of gun violence.”

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