mass shootings

A juvenile male was arrested Friday for his part in a shooting that killed two people and injured 12 others in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city this past weekend, police said. Montgomery police announced that the boy has been charged with capital murder and 12 counts of assault. His name wasn't immediately released.

Following a mass shooting that killed two people and wounded a dozen in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey said that the state will take a greater role in public safety efforts in the capital city.

No one had been arrested as of Sunday afternoon following a mass shooting in downtown Montgomery. Police appealed to the public for information and sorted through a complicated crime scene that involved multiple people firing weapons in a crowd just after the Tuskegee University-Morehouse College rivalry football game ended blocks away.

Alabama man accused of killing 18 people in 2023 and 2024, including two mass shootings, will go to trial in April next year, a judge ruled Tuesday. But his attorneys have raised concerns about whether it will be possible to select impartial jurors from a city still reeling from record levels of violence last year.

Alabama lawmakers are advancing a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that make semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns. The conversion devices that speed the firing of semi-automatic weapons are already banned under federal law, but there’s currently no state law that bans them.

An Alabama man charged with homicide in two separate mass shootings is pleading not guilty in state court. 22-year-old Damien McDaniel is accused of killing 11 people between July and September of last year. The shootings happened at a pair of nightclubs, including Hush Lounge in Birmingham.

One person is under arrested following a shooting during the Homecoming celebration at Tuskegee that killed one and injured sixteen others. Investigators say not all of the victims were hurt by gunfire.

An Alabama police chief announced plans to retire, just over a month after a mass shooting renewed scrutiny of the department's efforts to quell surging gun violence and homicides.

A federal program that provides aid and promotes justice for crime victims is extending support to the Birmingham community in the wake of a mass shooting outside Hush, a lounge in the Five Points South district.

The search continues for the gunmen involved in a weekend mass shooting at Hush Lounge in Five Points South. Police say they believe the shooters targeted at least one of the victims when they opened fire. Carlos De’Juan McCain and Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., who both were killed in the shooting, were separately charged in past Birmingham homicides.