At least 4 killed and multiple injured in shooting at popular entertainment area in Birmingham, Alabama, police say

At least four people were killed and “dozens” more were injured in a mass shooting in one of the most popular entertainment areas in Birmingham, Alabama, Saturday evening, the Birmingham Police Department said.

At least four people were killed and “dozens” more were injured in a mass shooting in one of the most popular entertainment areas in Birmingham, Alabama, Saturday evening, the Birmingham Police Department said. Just after 11 p.m., “multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people” in the Five Points South area, Birmingham Police Officer Truman Fitzgerald said. When officers arrived at the scene, they found two men and a woman unresponsive with gunshot wounds, and all three were later pronounced dead on the scene, Fitzgerald said. A fourth victim died at an area hospital, he added. No suspects were in custody as of early Sunday, Fitzgerald said. The incident extends the list of at least 403 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter. The victims in Alabama were all out in the open on the sidewalk or on the streets, Fitzgerald said. Detectives are working to determine whether the shooters walked up to the victims or drove by in a vehicle, he added.