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11/01 11:12 CST Dozens injured, at least 6 dead in Halloween weekend gun
violence at nightlife districts across US
Dozens injured, at least 6 dead in Halloween weekend gun violence at nightlife
districts across US
By JOHN RABY
Associated Press
Dozens of people were injured and at least six people died in mass shootings as
gun violence broke out at nightlife districts in half a dozen cities across the
country over the Halloween weekend.
Police in Dallas, the site of the deadliest violence, said four people are dead
and 15 others were injured following a handful of shootings in the city's Deep
Ellum neighborhood, a center of music, restaurants and nightlife in the city.
Police in college towns like Fayetteville, Arkansas; Birmingham, Alabama; and
Newark, Delaware, also reported shootings in their nightlife districts this
weekend.
Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said investigators are still trying to
determine if the shootings Saturday night over the span of about an hour and 15
minutes were related.
Comeaux said three separate shootings occurred, and it wasn't immediately known
why they started. Comeaux said some arrests were made but he didn't specify how
many or what charges were involved.
"This is a really big scene. It's spread out," Comeaux said. "We are
interviewing some individuals right now that we have arrested, still trying to
figure out exactly how it ties into all the shootings out here."
The department had increased police presence in the district before the
shootings. No police officers were injured.
Separately, one person was killed and eight others were wounded in a mass
shooting just outside Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, after the annual
?Magic City Classic' football game on Saturday night, police 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 Newark, Delaware, six people were shot late Saturday near the University of
Delaware campus, Newark police Lt. Greg D'Elia said. All six were transported
to hospitals for treatment, police said early Sunday. No updates on their
condition were available as of Sunday afternoon. Messages to university
relations and police were not immediately returned.
Video shared on social media showed people running for safety from the scene.
One stretch of the city's Main Street was closed for several hours after the
shooting, police said.
A shooting early Sunday in Bloomington, Illinois, left a 19-year-old woman dead
and another woman in critical condition. Six others had injuries that were not
life-threatening, but it was unclear from a statement by the city's police
department and McLean County Coroner's Office if those people had gunshot
wounds. The shooting happened near the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University.
Bloomington is about 135 miles (217 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.
And in Fayetteville, Arkansas, six people were taken to hospitals with gunshot
wounds from a shooting that happened early Sunday. No arrests have been made,
police said in a news release. A preliminary investigation indicates an
altercation preceded the shooting.
On Friday, two people were killed in separate shootings at Spirit Halloween
stores in California and Michigan.
Police said a shooting inside a store at an indoor shopping mall in Fairfield,
California was a targeted attack. Family members told police that the
31-year-old woman who died was pregnant. Six other people were wounded, police
said.
In Madison Heights, Michigan, just north of Detroit, a 21-year-old man was
fatally shot Friday afternoon at a Spirit Halloween. Another man who was
assaulted by bystanders as officers took him into custody was hospitalized with
injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
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Raby reported from Charleston, West Virginia. AP reporter Claudia Lauer
contributed from Philadelphia.
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