Johnny Letron Brown, 20, of Tuskegee, is charged with four counts of reckless murder, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Brown is the fourth person to be arrested in the Dadeville birthday party shooting.
Court records indicate Brown, who had a previous address in Tallassee, failed to appear in court earlier this month for traffic citations of speeding and invalid insurance.Both also were charged as adults with four counts of reckless murder. They were taken into custody Tuesday night.also on the same charges.
Under Alabama law, the crime of reckless murder is committed when a person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to a person other than himself or herself and causes the death of another person. Burkett has not disclosed where any of the arrests were made. He also would not say how many guns were fired or how many shots were fired.
Another 32 people were injured, some of them critically, when gunfire erupted at approximately 10:34 p.m. Saturday at Mahogany’s Masterpiece dance studio on North Broadnax Street in downtown Dadeville, one block from the courthouse.Dowdell said she dove to the floor near the DJ as the dozens of revelers ran. She “didn’t know where to run,” in part because shots seemed to come from multiple directions.
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