At least two people have been killed and 14 injured in a mass shooting in Montgomery on Saturday night, authorities in Alabama have said.<\/p>\n
A woman was among those killed and at least two of the injured were children, one of whom suffered life-threatening injuries, Montgomery Police Department (MPD) Chief James Graboys\u00a0told the Montgomery Advertiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n The massacre happened in the city\u2019s busy tourist district downtown just after the football game between Tuskegee University and Morehouse College, two historically black universities in the state.<\/p>\n Police arrive at the scene of the shooting that left 2 dead. Mickey Welsh \/ Advertiser \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n Law enforcement vehicles on Commerce Street following a shooting in downtown Montgomery, Ala., on early Sunday morning October 5, 2025. Mickey Welsh \/ Advertiser \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n The shooting started when a fight broke out between two rival groups at around 11:30 p.m. in downtown Montgomery, Graboys said.<\/p>\n The fracas escalated into a running gun battle that saw the perps firing wildly into a crowd, hitting bystanders.<\/p>\n Liqueur bottles litter the sidewalk at Bibb Street and Commerce Street following the shooting. Mickey Welsh \/ Advertiser \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n \u201cThis was two parties involved that were basically shooting at each other in the middle of a crowd,\u201d he said, as\u00a0reported by\u00a0<\/a>AL.com<\/a>, adding that the shooters \u201cdid not care about the people around them when they did it.\u201d<\/p>\n So far, there have been no arrests made. Twelve of the 14 victims remain in the hospital.<\/p>\n \u201cIn total, three victims remain in life-threatening condition, and nine sustained non-life-threatening injuries,\u201d MPD Lt. Tina McGriff told the Montgomery Advertiser.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two people have been killed and 14 injured in a mass shooting in Montgomery on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[12955,5229,16482,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-279530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-mass-shootings","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-us-news","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}