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<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "A shooting In an Alabama mall, one person was killed and two hospitalized teenagers injured by gunshots, police said. "Data-reactid =" 16 "> A shootout on Thursday night in an Alabama shopping mall has left one dead and two teenagers hospitalized with an injury bullet, police said.
<p class = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "The filming has arrived At 9:55 pm local time after a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man engaged in a physical altercation near Riverchase Galleria's Footaction store, according to Captain Gregg Rector of the Hoover Police Department. "data-reactid =" 17 "> The shooting took place around 9:52 pm local time, after a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man engaged in a physical altercation near the Footaction store. Riverchase Galleria shopping center, according to Captain Gregg Rector of the Hoover Police Department.
Police initially said she thought the 21-year-old had pulled out his gun and fired twice on his chest before fleeing, police said. The 18-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital and was reported for the last time.
A 12-year-old girl, an innocent bystander, was also shot, but she was alert, spoke, and was taken to the nearby children's hospital by an emergency service unit. Hoover fire. It has been reported for the last time in a stable state.
The 21-year-old policeman was spotted by two uniformed police officers, one of whom pulled out a gun and fired at the alleged gunman, who was pronounced dead on the scene.
"The unidentified person was fleeing the scene when one of the police met him and shot him," Rector said.
Hoover Police captain Gregg Rector said Friday in a statement that Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21, of Hueytown, Alabama, was involved in "an aspect of the altercation" with the youngster. 18 year old man. but he "probably did not shoot the cartridges that hurt" the victim.
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Police said Friday night that she thought that another person had fired the shots that had injured the 18-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl and that this person was still on the run .
"The investigators now estimate that more than two people were involved in the first altercation," said the rector. "This information indicates that there is at least one armed man still free, who could be responsible for shooting the 18-year-old man and the 12-year-old woman."
Bradford and the 21-year-old man who died would be "involved in the first altercation" with the teenager, said the rector.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has entrusted the investigation to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency due to a potential conflict of interest.
"We determined that one of the witnesses is closely related to a sworn sheriff's office staff member," said Randy Christian, deputy chief of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. "In order to remove any bias, at the prosecutor's request, we entrusted the investigation to ALEA."
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The officer involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
The shopping center was reopened on Friday morning.
Hoover is a suburb of Birmingham.
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