(Washington) Shooting at a teenager’s birthday party injured at least 20 on Saturday night in a small town in Alabama, in the southern United States, according to local media citing the forces of the ‘order.
The shootings occurred around 10:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. Eastern Time), at a building in downtown Dadeville. A teenager – whose gender was not specified – was celebrating his 16the anniversary, according to local channel WRBL.
Authorities have not said whether a suspect is in custody.
The motive also remains to be clarified, but the investigators believe that an altercation led to this tragedy, according to WRBL.
The United States pays a very heavy price for the spread of firearms in its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to them.
The country has more individual weapons than inhabitants: one in three adults owns at least one weapon and nearly one in two adults lives in a home where there is a weapon.
The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of death by firearm in the United States, without comparison with that of other developed countries.