A shooting at an Alabama shopping mall has left at least four people hospitalized, police said. The extent of their injuries is unclear. Multiple shots had been reported near the food court inside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover.
HOOVER, Ala. — A shooting at an Alabama shopping mall left at least four people hospitalized Friday afternoon, police said.
Multiple shots were reported near the food court inside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Police Capt. Gregg Rector said in a news release. He said the victims were transported to area hospitals for treatment. “Their conditions are unknown at this time,” authorities said. “We don’t know at this point what led to the shooting or how many gunmen were involved,” Rector added.The mall has been evacuated “and the scene is secure,” police said.in a telephone interview that she heard six to seven shots fired.She said the gunshots “sounded like they were coming from every direction.”“It felt so close,” she said. “It was so surreal. It doesn’t even feel real right now. You wouldn’t expect something like that to happen out of nowhere on a normal, Friday afternoon.
The mall in suburban Birmingham was the site of a 2018 police shooting where an officer fatally shot a Black man with a gun after mistaking him for the gunman in an earlier shooting at the mall.The shooting of 21-year-old Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr. prompted a series of protests at the mall.
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