The search for suspects continues Monday, Sept. 23 after a mass shooting in one of Birmingham, Alabama’s most popular entertainment districts left four dead, and more than a dozen others injured over the weekend. Police said the shooting happened just after 11 p.m. CST Saturday, Sept. 21.
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They believe it was a paid “hit” on one specific person, with everyone else caught in the crossfire. Witnesses said multiple suspects pulled up in a car, got out and fired dozens of gunshots, then quickly took off.
Birmingham’s mayor said this is not the first time this year the city has seen gun violence like this. During a news conference Sunday, Sept. 22, he called it a “solvable problem.”
“We don’t have any interest in this whole debate about second amendment rights,” said Mayor Randall Woodfin. “We don’t have any interest in people who want to protect their homes, militia or whatever else you want to say. There’s a certain element in this city, there’s a certain element in this community who are too comfortable running around with semi-automatic weapons, automatic weapons, conversion switches and everything else, whose only intent, hell bent intent, is to harm people, shoot people, kill people.”
Investigators say they do believe the person who was targeted is among the people who died.
