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11/01 05:34 CST Mass shooting after Alabama football game leaves 1 dead, 8
wounded
Mass shooting after Alabama football game leaves 1 dead, 8 wounded
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) --- One person was killed and eight others were wounded
in a mass shooting just outside Legion Field after the annual ?Magic City
Classic' football game on Saturday night, police in Birmingham, Ala., said.
Michael Pickett, chief of the Birmingham Police Department, said most
spectators and families had left the stadium property after the game, but the
shooting happened nearby, where vendors were set up along Graymont Avenue.
He said he was "very grateful that more people weren't injured."
The circumstances of the shooting were unclear.
Police spokesperson De'Rell Freeman said one person had been detained and
transported to police headquarters for questioning, and "multiple weapons" had
been found and secured.
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