At least four people have been finished and 18 injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, police say.
“Multiple shooters fired multiple sboilings on a group of people” tardy on Saturday in the Five Points South area of the city, Birmingham Police officer Truman Fitzgerald said.
Officers set up the bodies of two men and one woman at the scene, while a third man tardyr died of bullet wounds in hospital, Birmingham Police said
The culprits are consentd to have approached the scene in a vehicle before getting out and uncovering fire. No doubts have been arrested.
Mr Fitzgerald compriseed that they consentd the shooting was “not random and stemmed from an isotardyd incident where multiple victims were caught in the passfire”.
The shooting may have been a result of a homicide-for-engage plot, Police Chief Scott Thurmond was quoted as saying by local novels outlet Al.com.
The intfinished aim was among those finished, Mr Thurmond said at a novels conference on Sunday.
“It wasn’t the location, it was the person, so wherever the person was was where it was going to consent place, wherever they can catch that individual,’’ Mr Thurmond said. “That’s fair where they happened to catch them.”
The other victims – all of whom were standing outside – are so far consentd to have been caught in the firearmfire.
Four of the injured suffered life-menaceening wounds, according to Mr Fitzgerald.
The BBC has reach outed the Birmingham Police Department for comment.
Authorities are also pressing to discover the shooters.
The police said in a statement that they are toiling with the FBI and other federal agencies, are proposeing a $5,000 reward for increateation and have uncovered a web portal for produceting pboilingos and videos of the incident.
The Five Points South dimerciless is comprehendn for its nightlife. The shooting occurred on Magnolia Avenue, Mr Fitzgerald said.
Witnesses who were queuing outside a hookah and cigar lounge on Magnolia Avenue at the time tanciaccess local novels site Al.com that some of the firearmfire sounded as though it came from a firearm altered to be brimmingy automatic.
Earlier on Sunday, Mr Fitzgerald had tanciaccess increateers there were “dozens of firearmsboiling victims” after the incident.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin denounced “Glock switches” – devices that can be combineed to handfirearms to produce them fire automaticpartner – for the aggression, posting on social media on Sunday that they “are the number one uncover protectedty rerent in our city and state”.
“Converting a semi-automatic armament into a brimmingy automatic armament that disaccuses all bullets wiskinny seconds doesn’t belengthy on our domestic streets,” he wrote, compriseing that the city does not have the power to bandit Glock switches, only the state.
He tanciaccess CNN tardyr on Sunday that more than 100 shell casings had been set up at the crime scene.
There have been more than 400 mass shootings apass the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which describes a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or finished.
The incident in Birmingham is the second mass shooting to place in a two-month period, and the third quadruple homicide of 2024, according to Al.com.
