1 killed, 8 injured in shooting outside HBCU game in Alabama — SkimNews
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- Birmingham Police Department reported that a shooting just outside Legion Field after Saturday night’s Magic City Classic killed one person and wounded eight others.
- Graymont Avenue was the nearby area where vendors were set up; by the shooting, most spectators and families had left the Legion Field property.
- Birmingham Police Department detained one person and transported them to headquarters for questioning, while officers found and secured multiple weapons.
- De'Rell Freeman said one of the eight injured people was in critical condition and the other seven were stable.
- Michael Pickett said he was "very grateful that more people weren't injured," while police stated that the shooting’s circumstances remained unclear.
- Alabama A&M met Alabama State in the annual Magic City Classic, billed as the largest historically Black college and university football game in the country.
Why it matters: For Birmingham’s game-day community, the immediate toll was one death and eight injuries, including one critical case. Most spectators and families had already left Legion Field before the shooting near vendors on Graymont Avenue, while police’s detention of one person and seizure of multiple weapons were the only investigative outcomes identified.
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