Willie George Brown Jr., 19, is the fifth suspect arrested in the Sweet 16 party shooting in Dadeville that killed four people and injured 32 others. All five suspects are being held without bond in the Tallapoosa County Jail pending bond hearings.
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. A motive in the shooting has not been disclosed. Burkett 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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