Four dead and ‘dozens’ injured after mass shooting in Alabama

Four people were shot dead in the street in a nightlife area in Alabama last night, according to police.

Multiple people were shot on 20th Street near Magnolia Avenue in the Five Points South area of Birmingham, the Birmingham Police Department said in a social media post.

Officers arrived at the scene and discovered two men and a woman dead at the scene. A fourth victim died at a hospital, WBMA-TV reported.

Other victims were transported to hospitals in private vehicles, police said.

The Five Points South area of Birmingham has entertainment venues, restaurants and bars and is often crowded on Saturday nights.

Police said there were no immediate arrests, WBMA reported.

‘We will do everything we possibly can to make sure we uncover, identify and hunt down whoever is responsible for preying on our people this morning,’ Birmingham Officer Truman Fitzgerald said.

How many mass shootings have taken place so far in the US this year?

Across the US so far this year there has been 403 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

A mass shooting is a shooting where four or more people are injured or killed and this includes ones that happen in both public places but also homes.

Over the last four years, there has been around 600 mass shootings each year.

This equates to around two people killed on average each day by guns in the US.

The deadliest mass shooting in the US happened in Las Vegas in 2017 where more than 50 people were killed and 500 injured.

But mass shootings like this one are rare and the average one results in the deaths of less than 10 people.

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