At least 4 people killed and 9 injured in Birmingham nightclub shooting, police say

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At least four people were killed and nine others were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Birmingham, Alabama, late Saturday night, police said.

Investigators believe at least one person fired shots from the street into the nightclub on 27th Street North, where responding officers found multiple gunshot victims around 11 p.m. local time, the Birmingham officer said Truman Fitzgerald in a video statement.

Two women from the nightclub and a man who was found on a sidewalk near the scene were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Another man died at the hospital, according to Fitzgerald.

Several shooting victims later arrived at a hospital, and at least nine people were still receiving treatment Sunday morning, police said.

Police had not identified any suspects in the shooting and no arrests had been announced as of Sunday morning. It remains unclear what caused the fire.

“Detectives are working to determine what led to the shootings and the shooting victims,” ​​Fitzgerald said. “Our federal partners have been deployed to the scene and are assisting Birmingham police officers with this investigation.”

There have been at least 293 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2024, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. Like CNN, the archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter.

This is a developing story and will be updated.