VIDEO FOOTAGE: Mass shooting at Alabama New Year’s Eve celebration leaves one dead and 9 others injured

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Mass shooting at Alabama New Year’s Eve celebration leaves one dead and 9 others injured.

According to Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine, police received a report of shots fired in the 200 block of Dauphin Street at 11:15 p.m.

According to Prine, officers arrived to find one person dead and several others injured.

A shooting killed one person and injured nine others in #Mobile #Alabama, just blocks from where people had gathered for the #NewYearsEve celebration.

The chief stated that the surviving victims had all been transported to local hospitals, but no information on the extent of their injuries was available.

There have been no arrests, and it’s unclear what prompted the shooting, which happened as people gathered in the downtown area for the MoonPie Over Mobile event.

The other victims, ages 17-57, were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening to severe injuries, police said,

Mobile police could not immediately be reached for comment.

The shooting happened a few blocks from the main stage of the Moon Pie Over Mobile festival. The event continued with fireworks and a moon pie dropping from a downtown building at midnight to mark the start of 2023.

TV news footage showed police officers running and on horseback rushing to the area where the shooting took place about 45 minutes before midnight Saturday.

Neither the name of the person killed nor the conditions of the nine people taken to the hospital have been released by police.

The shooting happened a few blocks away from the main stage for the Moon Pie Over Mobile festival. The event continued on with fireworks and a moon pie dropping from a downtown building at midnight to mark the start of 2023,

The shooter and the person killed appeared to know each other, Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine told reporters near the scene.

“It would give some comfort to all of us downtown that this was not just a random shooting,” Prine said.

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