Search underway for suspects in Alabama mass shooting that killed 4 and injured 17

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Search underway for suspects in Alabama mass ********* that ******* 4 and injured 17

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities have reported no immediate arrests after a weekend mass ********* ******* four people and left 17 others injured in what police described as a targeted “hit” by multiple shooters who opened ***** outside a popular Alabama nightspot.

The ********* late Saturday night in the popular Five Points South entertainment district of Birmingham, rocking an area of restaurants and bars that is often bustling on weekend nights. The mass *********, one of several this year in the major city, unnerved residents and left officials at home and beyond pleading for help to both solve the ****** and address the broader problem of **** *********.

“The priority is to find these shooters and get them off our streets,” Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said a day after the *********.

The mayor planned a morning news conference Monday to provide updates on the case.

The ********* occurred on the sidewalk and street outside Hush, a lounge in the entertainment district, where blood stains were still visible on the sidewalk outside the venue on Sunday morning.

Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond said authorities believe the ********* targeted one of the people who was *******, possibly in a *******-for-hire. A vehicle pulled up and “multiple shooters” got out and began *******, then fled the scene, he said.

“We believe that there was a ‘hit,’ if you will, on that particular person,” Thurmond said.

Police said approximately 100 shell casings were recovered. Thurmond said law enforcement was working to determine what weapons were used, but they believe some of the gunfire was “fully automatic.” Investigators also were trying to determine whether anyone fired back, creating a crossfire.

In a statement late Sunday, police said the shooters are believed to have used “machine **** conversion devices” that make semi-automatic weapons ***** more rapidly.

Some surviving victims critically injured

Officers found two men and a woman on a sidewalk with gunshot wounds and they were pronounced ***** there. An additional male gunshot victim was pronounced ***** at a hospital, according to police.

Police identified the three victims found on the sidewalk as Anitra Holloman, 21, of the Birmingham suburb of Bessemer, Tahj Booker, 27, of Birmingham, and Carlos McCain, 27, of Birmingham. The fourth victim pronounced ***** at the hospital was pending identification.

By the early hours of Sunday, victims began showing up at hospitals and police subsequently identified 17 people with injuries, some of them life-threatening. Four of the surviving victims, in conditions ranging from good to critical, were being treated at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital on Sunday afternoon, according to Alicia Rohan, a hospital spokeswoman.

A popular nightspot rocked by gunfire

The area of Birmingham where the gunfire erupted is popular with young adults because of its proximity to the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the plethora of nearby restaurants and bars.

The ********* was the 31st mass ******** of 2024, of which 23 were shootings, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, who oversees a mass killings

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Three of the nation’s 23 mass shootings this year were in Birmingham, including two earlier quadruple homicides.

Mayor pleads for a solution to **** *********

Woodfin expressed frustration at what he described as an epidemic of **** ********* in America and the city.

“We find ourselves in 2024, where **** ********* is at an epidemic level, an epidemic crisis in our country. And the city of Birmingham, unfortunately, finds itself at the tip of that spear,” he said. ___

Associated Press writer Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee, contributed to this report.

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