The Dadeville, Alabama, shooting has devastated a city where “everybody knows everybody,” Ben Hayes, chaplain of Dadeville High School’s football team, told CNN. Here’s what we know about the victims so far.
One of the victims, Philstavious Dowdell, was the brother of the birthday girl, according to people who knew him. The shooting has devastated the city of about 3,000 people where “everybody knows everybody,” Ben Hayes, chaplain of Dadeville High School’s football team, told CNN. “I knew these kids personally. Most people did,” said Hayes, who is also a church pastor and chaplain for the Dadeville Police Department.
Philstavious Dowdell Dowdell was a gifted athlete who excelled at football, basketball and track at Dadeville High, Taylor said. “Anything put in his hand, God blessed him to be able to do it,” said Taylor, who has coached Dowdell since he was 9 years old. The oldest of three siblings, Dowdell was killed while attending his younger sister’s birthday party, according to Taylor. Hayes, the pastor, and Keenan Cooper, a DJ at the party, also confirmed Dowdell was among those killed.
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