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Two killed and 14 injured after mass shooting at Alabama football game

At least 14 people were injured and two dead after a weekend shooting in downtown Montgomery, police confirmed. An incident that Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys described as "a mass shooting event" happened about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, near the intersection of Bibb and Commerce streets.
At least 14 people were injured and two dead after a weekend shooting in downtown Montgomery (Picture: Google)

Children are among more than a dozen shot after rival fans clashed at an American Football game in Alabama.

Two people have been killed, including a woman, after guns were fired ‘wildly’ into crowds gathered in Montgomery city’s busy tourist district just after the rival match between Tuskegee University and Morehouse College on Saturday night.

‘This was two parties involved that were basically shooting at each other in the middle of a crowd,’  Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys told WSFA.

‘People who … opened fire on each other like that did not care about the people around them when they did it. And now we have 14 people who have been shot.’

A police spokeswoman said an adult woman was among those killed and that at least two children were injured, one is fighting for life in hospital.

Montgomery’s Mayor Steven Reed said: ‘We’re praying for the victims of this atrocity. We’re praying for their families, their friends. We’re praying for our city. Thousands of people have been in the city this weekend, and it only took one or two to change the entire outcome.’

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