Montgomery, Ala. (AP) – The rival gunmen began to shoot each other in a district of nightlife crowded in the capital of Alabama on Saturday night, killing two people and hurting another 12, police said.
Montgomery police chief James Graboys said three of the injured were hospitalized with injuries that threaten life. The police were called around 11:30 pm to which Grabs described as a “mass shooting.”
“These were two parts involved that basically fired each other in the middle of a crowd,” Grays told journalists near the scene.
The shooters, he said, “the people who surrounded them did not care when they did.”
Police had not reported arrests on Sunday morning, and had not published details about how many people had fired or what kind of weapons they had used.
It was a weekend particularly busy in Montgomery, with the football game back to the house of the State University of Alabama that day at the Hornet Stadium, the National Alabama Fair on Garrett Coliseum and the University Football Game of the University of Tuskegee that has just ended in the near Cramton Bowl.
Mayor Steven Reed told journalists that there were police units within 50 feet (15 meters) on both sides when the shooting exploded, but that the shooters “did not take into account human life.”
Graboys said the researchers were reviewing evidence and interviewing potential suspects, although no one had been accused early.
“We will do everything we need to gather all the tests to chase whoever is involved,” said Grays.
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