4 Dead, 17 Wounded in Alabama Mass Shooting That Birmingham Police Believe Was a ‘Hit’

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Four people are dead and 17 people are wounded in Birmingham, Ala., after a mass shooting that investigators believe was an intended “hit.” After a preliminary investigation, the BPD determined that there are multiple suspects in the shooting, which police believe “stemmed from an isolated incident where multiple victims were caught in the crossfire.”

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00:30We believe that there was a hit, if you will, on that particular person as far as, you know,

00:51someone was willing to pay money to have that person killed.

00:54We just have that information from some of the information we've learned in the last

00:58few hours of that investigation.

00:59I mean, that could change, but that's where we're at right now.

01:02Like I said, there wasn't anything that occurred at any of the businesses nearby.

01:06There wasn't any altercation that occurred there on the sidewalk.

01:09You know, there's just limited information that we have right now that we can give out.

01:14And so as time goes on and we have more information that we can release, we will.

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