Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin with this news, a Mass Shooting in birmingham, alabama. Police say multiple shooters open fire overnight on a group of people in one of the these popular entertainment districts. Four people are dead and 17 others are injured. So far, No One is in custody. One witness describes what he saw it was people everywhere, people crying, screaming same people were run in so it was very busy and it was a lot going on police believe it was a targeted hit on one person, the other victims were caught in the crossfire cnns Rafael Romo is in birmingham, rafael police are asking for the publics help to find the shooters that is correct. Fredricka, somebody should have heard or seen something and police say that information may prove crucial to solve the crime. Birmingham Police Chief Scott thurman, assess a group of individuals arrived here in the area known as fivePoint South, just after 11 last night, they got out of their car and open couldnt fire, then fled and the same vehicle five Point South is a popular place known for its restaurants, Night Book clubs, pubs and live music venues located near the university of alabama at Birmingham Campus and downtown police say, three of the victims, two men and one woman were found unresponsive with gunshot ted wounds at the scene. The fourth victim, a man, was pronounced dead at the university of Alabama Hospital at least 17 other people were shot, including four who suffered lifethreatening injuries and police say 100 Shell Casings were found at the site of the shooting. Chief thurman is calling the shooting a targeted hit. Lets take a Listen Individual that the target of his among the deceased we believe that there was a hit, if you will, on that particular person or as you know someone whos willing to pay money to have that person killed . And fred, this has been a very violent year for the City Of Birmingham a shooting at a nightclub in july left four people dead and ten others injured in February 4 men were shot and killed outside a public library. Birmingham mayor Randall Woodfin reflected at the frustration and then Concern CityThe City feels after so many shootings ourselves in 2024 where Gun Violence is an Epidemic Level in the Evidence Crisis in our country and unfortunately, City Of Birmingham finds itself unfortunately at the tip of that excuse is its all will the answer is yes. Those are required everyone to come together. The answer is also yes. And unfortunately, fred, th4e United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence archive of the archive like cnn find some Mass Shooting as one in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter, fred. Thank you. Rafael you mentioned 17 people were injured, many of them were sent to hospitals nearby. Any word on how theyre doing . Yeah. The police specifically mentioned four of those people who are in critical condition with lifethreatening injuries we havent been able to get information on the rest of them and get up. Remember, afraid that the situation here was very chaotic. Some most people drove themselves to the hospitals. Some others were taking to area hospitals by ambulance. So at this point, were still trying to get that information. But as you can imagine, this community very shaken by what happened here across The Street last night, fred, indeed are Rafael Romo thank you so much all right. Here to discuss further, is former Boston Police commissioner ed davis. Good to see you, commissioner. So this Mass Shooting, i mean, chaotic police say there were multiple shooters. 100 Shell Casings found, as you heard, rafael say several victims caught in the crossfire and for fatalities so whats the focus right now for this investigation for we go you described it right . Ive been two incidents. Not what this many people injured, but certainly with the many people killed and it is chaos. So the police have to spend a lot of time attending to the wounded, making sure that the crimes gina secured, and then collecting as much evidence as possible, especially video evidence, to find out who was in the area. Its a Wanton Disregard for life and furnished and bystanders. When you when you have a situation like this, you have people that have some type of beef with each other and then they, they, they do something unconscionable like this. What is complicated by these things called Glock Switches . There technically auto Sphere Devices switch about an inch long that you can attach to the rear of Oclock Firearm that will turn into a full automatic. And if you combine that with an extended magazine their findings 75 to 100 showcasing the scenes now, which is indicative of a full automatic handgun how might tracing those casings or any other forensic evidence to even that the Glock Switches is there a way in which to trace them that helps lead to suspect or suspects yes. The atf has a Computer System called niven, nice spent Shell Casings can be entered into that computer and its very helpful because it can tell you what other incidents that happened prior well the same ejecta marks. And so if you see a gun thats being thats being used at three separate shooting shootings. There were usually similar situations. Theyre probably the same shooter. And its important to understand the bigger picture, not just the incident its an if that happened, but what led up to it Birmingham Police in addition to looking at any kind of forensic evidence, theyre also asking for the Publics Assistance in any way. What does this indicate to you in terms of a Starting Point or at what juncture are they in trying to locate these shooters . Well, its still very early any investigation and it is hard to put things together immediately. But theyre clearly reaching out for help. They wanted to have people who saw this. So people who might have video of it help them in identifying who was responsible. The problem with a case like this is usually a lot of people involved, its not just one shooter coming up. Its been described as multiple shooters. And so you need to get an id on each one of those individuals and youll have different pieces of evidence. So public cooperation is vital Birminghams Mayor said Gun Violence is at an Epidemic Level. Yes. City. He also had some choice words about Automatic Weapons on The Streets. Listen to what he had to say theres a certain element in this city. Theres a certain element in this Community Ryan around semiAutomatic WeaponsAutomatic Weapons, convergence, which is in everything else only. Intent Hellbent And Intent is to harm people, shoot people, kill people interpret those words and how it can be used to take action to help lead to suspects or even quiet are calm. What is Epidemic Levels . Well, the meares frustration, i can i can identify with because i faced that exact problem when i first took over the Boston Police department and we put together a strategy that targeted individuals. We got information from The Street is to who was responsible, and we made a list of those people who are involved of mostly in the shootings. And then we contacted them and told them we were coming for them. And then we use our federal Partners Dea and fbi, to go after those individuals, not necessarily for the shooting sometimes for drug trafficking, sometimes for human trafficking. These people are multi, multi offenders and you can get focused on whos doing it. You can get focused on them and get them out of the picture ed davis. Thank you so much for joining us from boston thank you frederik sorry, im quoting now, watching with concern words from the White House as it monitors escalating attacks between israel and iranbacked Hezbollah Hezbollah second in command saying, im quoting now a Battle Without Limits is now underway. Pros, for. Have i got news for you . A pretty yeah but what are the kinds we could run on the news before then never happened. If i got news for you saturday at nine on Cnn And Streaming next day on max, youre seeing skechers, famous glide, Step Up where everywhere. 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What we saw and just the hours after midnight was the first of three Hezbollah Salvos of rockets going deep inside israel, deeper than we have seen yet since the beginning of Hostility Hostilities last october. Now, hezbollah claimed that they were targeting the Ramot Davide IsraeliAir Base as well as the but raphael advanced defense weapons Systems Factory in haifa. However, what they struck apart from of course, those missiles that were intercepted, seemed to be areas away from their perhaps purposely designed to avoid hitting any targets that Mike Precipitate a serious is israeli response. Now, according to the israeli medical service, several people were hospitalized as a result of these strikes. And we did see damage to homes and cars and other civilian infrastructure. We also saw 24 hour period, where as many as 300 israeli airstrikes not just on Southern Lebanon, but on the eastern part of the country as well. Now, we were at that funeral for ibrahim aqil, who was killed last friday along with 15 other members first of hezbollah, but also about three times as many civilians were also killed in that strike on southern beirut. Now, active funeral, we saw nine cost him whos the number two on the political side of his butler, who came out and said that what happened last night, referring to hezbollahs airstrikes on israel is the first blow in a Battle Without Limits, a Battle Without Limits are the words he used for their part. The israelis are also talking escalation herzi halevi, who is the israeli Armys Chief of staff, came out and said that our strikes will intensify now, all of this and all of this talk is certainly raising serious concerns we heard Un Secretary general Antonio Guterres in an interview with cnns Fareed Zakaria saying that hes very worried that lebanon could be turned into another gaza fredricka. All right. Ben wedeman thank you so much. Will check back with you all right. 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