A shooting at a teenager’s birthday party in a small town in Alabama, in the southern United States of America, left at least four dead and 20 injured.
According to WRBL radio, which quoted police, the shooting took place around 10:30 p.m. (local time, 4:30 a.m. on a Sunday in Lisbon), in a building in downtown Dadeville, during the celebration of a teenager’s 16th birthday . , whose gender was not specified.
BREAKING: 5 killed and several injured in mass shooting at teen’s birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama pic.twitter.com/XWik1fyQ6B
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Authorities have not said if the suspect is in custody, nor has the motive for the shooting been clarified, although investigators believe there was a fight at the origin.
“This morning I am in mourning alongside the people of this city and my fellow Alabama members. Violent crime has no place in our state,” Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said in a statement posted on social media.
On the same night, other shots killed at least two and wounded four at a park in Louisville, Kentucky (east center), according to media reports.
Also in this city, but according to the press on Monday a young man opened fire on the bank where he worked, killing five people.
The US records a high rate of deaths from firearms, more than other countries considered developed, continuing the debate about the ease with which citizens have access to guns.
The country has more individual guns than residents: one in three adults owns at least one gun and almost one in two adults live in a household where a gun is present.
Source: DN
