Nine people were injured while gathering for the Moon Pie Over Mobile event in downtown, police said
One person was killed in a shooting in downtown Mobile, Alabama, where thousands were gathered for a New Year’s Eve festival.One person was killed in a shooting in downtown Mobile, Alabama, where thousands were gathered for a New Year’s Eve festival.
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.