A massive manhunt was underway Sunday morning after a mass shooting late Saturday night in Birmingham’s bustling Five Points South entertainment area left four dead and at least 18 others injured.
Officers arriving at the scenes found two men and a woman on a sidewalk with gunshot wounds, and they were pronounced dead there. An additional male gunshot victim was pronounced dead at a hospital, Fitzgerald said.
A preliminary investigation showed that “multiple suspects fired upon a large group of people who were outside in a public area,” Fitzgerald said.
“Detectives believe the shooting was not random and stemmed from an isolated incidents where multiple victims were caught in the crossfire, Injured people began showing up to hospitals,” Fitzgerald said. By early Sunday, police had identified 18 other victims with injuries, some of them life threating.
Authorities said they don’t believe the shooting was random, but stemmed from an isolated incident where multiple innocent bystanders were caught in the crossfire.
“We have reached out to our partners with ATF, the FBI, you’ll have a plethora of law enforcement agencies assisting the Birmingham Police Department‚’’ Officer Truman Fitzgerald said.
The Five Point South area contains entertainment venues, restaurants and bars, so often it’s crowded on Saturday nights.