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Four people were killed and dozens more wounded in a shooting Friday night linked to a birthday party in the small town of Dadeville, Ala., state law enforcement officials said.
“We will continue to work in a methodical way to go through this scene, to look at the facts and make sure that justice is done for the family,” said Sgt. Jeremy Burkett of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency told a news conference Sunday morning.
The shooting happened at approximately 10:34 pm CT on Friday, according to the agency. Officials have not released details on what led to the shooting, and it is not known if any suspects are in custody.
Tallapoosa County Schools Superintendent Raymond Porter said at a press conference that counseling will be provided at schools on Monday, and that he is asking local pastors to help families deal with the situation.
“We will do everything we can to comfort these children and not forget that they are the ones most affected by this situation,” said Porter.
The FBI, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Fifth Circuit District Attorney’s Office also responded to the scene and assisted in the investigation, according to a news release from the state law enforcement agency.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a Twitter post Sunday morning that she was being kept “closely updated” by law enforcement as details emerged.
“This morning, I am saddened by the people of Dadeville and my fellow Alabamians,” he wrote in the post. “Violent crime has no place in our country.”
The shooting comes within weeks of two mass shootings in the states of Tennessee and Kentucky, which prompted local leaders to call for stricter gun control measures last week.
A bank employee killed five colleagues and wounded nine others at his workplace in Louisville, Ky., on Monday. On March 27, three nine-year-old children and three staff members were killed at a private Christian school in Nashville by a former student.
Mass shootings have become commonplace in the United States. There have been more than 146 so far in 2023, the most at this point since at least 2016, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The nonprofit group defines a mass shooting as four or more people injured or killed in a shooting, not including the shooter.
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