Wednesday, July 18, 2012

17 hurt, four critical, in Alabama bar shooting

By NBC News staff and affiliates

Seventeen people were injured, four of them critically, in a shooting at a bar in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, early Tuesday, police said.

A report in the Tuscaloosa News quoted Sgt. Brent Blankley, with the Tuscaloosa Police, as saying the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday at Copper Top bar in the city?s Temerson Square.


Mary Wyatt, spokesperson for the DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, told NBC News affiliate WAFF that 17 people were injured and admitted to the hospital overnight, four of whom were admitted to critical care.

The station said the shooter was still on the loose. The police department issued a security camera image of a wanted suspect via its Twitter feed.

Sgt. Blankley confirmed to NBC News affiliate WVTM that some of the local area was on lockdown in order to handle the number of victims involved in the shooting spree.

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