A Jacksonville State commit was killed in a mass shooting in Dadeville, Alabama on Saturday night.
, Dowdell ran a personal record 10.9 seconds in the 100-meter dash and helped the football team to a 10-1 record last season.. It took place at a dance studio in town. At least 28 people, including 15 teenagers, were injured in the shooting. Dowdell was one of four killed. It's unclear what led to the shooting, or who allegedly opened fire.
Dadeville, a town of about 3,000, sits roughly an hour northeast of Montgomery and a half hour northwest of Auburn., there have been 161 mass shootings in 2023 alone. Guns are the leading killer of children in the United States. Gun violence has been a growing topic in the sports world in recent years as the problem in the United States grows. Longtime San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, one of the most outspoken coaches in all of sports, went on a. His speech came after a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, which was 31 mass shootings ago.
"But they're going to cloak all this stuff [in] the myth of the Second Amendment, the freedom," Popovich."You know, it's just a myth. It's a joke. It's just a game they play. I mean, that's freedom. Is it freedom for kids to go to school and try to socialize and try to learn and be scared to death that they might die that day?"
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