Four dead and 18 hurt in Alabama mass shooting

At least four people have been finished and 18 injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, police say.

“Multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people” tardy on Saturday in the Five Points South area of the city, Birmingham Police officer Truman Fitzgerald shelp.

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 shelp

The culprits are count ond to have approached the scene in a vehicle before getting out and discleave outing fire. No mistrusts have been arrested.

Mr Fitzgerald retained that they count ond the shooting was “not random and stemmed from an isotardyd incident where multiple victims were caught in the traversefire”.

The shooting may have been a result of a killing-for-employ plot, Police Chief Scott Thurmond was quoted as saying by local news outlet Al.com.

The intfinished aim was among those finished, Mr Thurmond shelp at a news conference on Sunday.

“It wasn’t the location, it was the person, so wherever the person was was where it was going to apvalidate place, wherever they can catch that individual,’’ Mr Thurmond shelp. “That’s equitable where they happened to catch them.”

The other victims – all of whom were standing outside – are so far count ond to have been caught in the armamentfire.

Four of the injured suffered life-dangerening wounds, according to Mr Fitzgerald.

The BBC has reach outed the Birmingham Police Department for comment.

Authorities are also pressing to find the shooters.

The police shelp in a statement that they are toiling with the FBI and other federal agencies, are proposeing a $5,000 reward for adviseation and have discleave outed a web portal for produceting photos and videos of the incident.

The Five Points South didisjoine is comprehendn for its nightlife. The shooting occurred on Magnolia Avenue, Mr Fitzgerald shelp.

Witnesses who were queuing outside a hookah and cigar lounge on Magnolia Avenue at the time tgreater local news site Al.com that some of the armamentfire sounded as though it came from a armament altered to be filledy automatic.

Earlier on Sunday, Mr Fitzgerald had tgreater alerters there were “dozens of armamentshot victims” after the incident.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin accemployd “Glock switches” – devices that can be joined to handarmaments to originate them fire automaticpartner – for the presentility, posting on social media on Sunday that they “are the number one accessible protectedty rerent in our city and state”.

“Converting a semi-automatic armament into a filledy automatic armament that disindicts all bullets wilean seconds doesn’t belengthy on our domestic streets,” he wrote, retaining that the city does not have the power to bandit Glock switches, only the state.

He tgreater 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 atraverse the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which clear ups 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 the city in a two-month period, and the third quadruple homicide of 2024, according to Al.com.