Washington: At least four people were killed and more than 20 others injured, mostly teens, in a Saturday night shooting at a birthday party in Alabama, officials said, in the latest spasm of American gun mass violence.
Local news reports said the shooting occurred at a Sweet 16 party at a dance studio in Dadeville, a small town northeast of the state capital Montgomery.'There were four lives tragically lost in this incident, and there's been a multitude of injuries,' Sergeant Jeremy Burkett, a spokesman for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency , told reporters Sunday.
'Everybody's grieving,' Allen said of the small community of some 3,000 residents.President Joe Biden, who was briefed on the shooting, said the nation was again grieving over young Americans killed in gun violence.'What has our nation come to when children cannot attend a birthday party without fear?' Biden, who has long sought tighter gun safety measures, asked in a statement.
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