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11/01 07:59 CST Mass shooting after Alabama football game leaves 1 dead, 8
wounded
Mass shooting after Alabama football game leaves 1 dead, 8 wounded
The Associated Press
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.
Alabama State and Alabama A&M are historically Black universities and
archrivals whose annual contest has been played for more than 100 years. Nearly
70,000 fans attended Saturday's game, won by Alabama A&M 31-28. The event draws
some of the largest crowds in the country for games played in their college
football division.
The Magic City Classic has such a deep history that Alabama State coach Eddie
Robinson Jr., a former NFL linebacker and alumnus of the school, proposed
creating a Hall of Fame for the game.
In Dallas, police planned a news conference Sunday to address what it called
"multiple" reports of overnight shootings in the downtown Deep Ellum
neighborhood.
