At least four people have been killed in a gunshot at a birthday party in Alabama. Local police said several others were injured. Authorities gave no information on the victims’ ages or the background to the incident, which took place around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday evening in the town of Dadeville.
“It was linked to a birthday party,” police officer Jeremy Burkett said at a press conference. He did not provide any information about what led to the incident or whether there were any arrests in connection with it. US media reported that the victims were mostly young people because it was a 16th birthday party. Dadeville is about 70 kilometers northeast of the capital Montgomery.
A fatal gun attack also occurred in the state of Kentucky, north of Alabama, on Saturday evening. Shots were fired into a crowd in the largest city of Louisville, police said at a press conference on Saturday night. At least two people were fatally hit. At least four people were taken to hospital with injuries, one of whom is in critical condition. Further details were not initially known.
