A 16th birthday in a small US town has turned to tragedy with a gunman killing four people and wounding 20 others, while in another shooting in a Kentucky park two people are killed.
Four people have been killed and multiple people injured during a shooting at a teenagers' birthday party in the small town of Dadeville, Alabama,The grandmother of a victim said he was celebrating his sister's 16th birthday when he was killedDadeville has a population of about 3,200There was no initial confirmation about what led to the shooting.
Local media and witnesses have said several wounded people, many of them teens, were transported to local hospitals for medical attention. Local TV showed images of crime scene tape around the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio and neighbouring buildings, and a heavy police presence. Dadeville, which has a population of about 3,200 people, is in east Alabama, 92 kilometres north-east of the state capital Montgomery.An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night."Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting, when someone started shooting into the crowd, hitting at least six people," Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said.
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