A shooting on First Avenue North in Birmingham, Alabama, leaves one person dead and two others critically injured. Police suspect a shootout involving multiple vehicles. The victims' involvement in the shootout is under investigation.
Carol Robinson | [email protected] who was killed in a June 15 shootout on Birmingham ’s busy First Avenue North in front of East Lake Park. Two others were seriously wounded in the gunfire. was among the four people killed in the mass shooting outside Birmingham ’s Hush lounge in September. There is no suspected link between Scales’ alleged crimes and the Southside massacre. Candance Kemp, mother of Scales and Hollomon, said her son innocent of the crimes for which he’s been charged.
“My son is innocent, and we have proof he is, and he has a great defense team,’’ Kemp said Thursday. She claims detectives have harassed her family. “They just want to see another Black man gone,” she said. “Tell them to put this much work into catching the rest of the killers from my daughter’s murder.” The shooting that killed Williams happened about 7:40 p.m. Saturday in the 8200 block of First Avenue North, just off Interstate 59. East Precinct officers started receiving multiple Shot Spotter alerts about that time, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald. Police arrived on the scene to find four vehicles wrecked along First Avenue North. Two of those vehicles were empty, and third was found near the Shell gas station. The fourth vehicle had crashed through the fence of the park, coming to a rest about 20 feet inside the park. Williams was pronounced dead on the scene. The other two victims were rushed to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries. “We believe a shootout happened on the roadway involving at least three vehicles,’’ Fitzgerald said at the time. “We even suspect the victims may have been involved in the shootout based on the evidence we observed.” The vehicle found at the nearby gas station was believed to have wrecked trying to escape the chaos, and investigators don’t believe those in that vehicle had anything to do with the shooting. Fitzgerald said police believe multiple guns were fire
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