A 9-year-old boy is at Children's of Alabama with gunshot injuries from a shootout that happened in a Birmingham apartment complex early Tuesday morning.More than 200 shell casings were found in the Springville Landing apartment complex on Huffman Road by Birmingham police after the shooting between two groups of people who knew each other.It started around 1:25 a.m., according to police. The shooting started from a fight in the parking lot.>> YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Community coverage from WVTM 13Nine apartments and 24 cars were shot into, police said.The child's apartment was caught in the crossfire of the shootout and no one in the victim's apartment was being targeted, police said. The mother told police her son had been shot and he was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injures that didn't require surgery.Police said no other injuries have been reported.>> WVTM 13 ON-THE-GO: Download our app for freeFive people of interest have been detained.Anyone with information about the case is asked to call police at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available. Stay updated on the latest stories with the WVTM 13 app. You can download it here.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —
A 9-year-old boy is at Children's of Alabama with gunshot injuries from a shootout that happened in a Birmingham apartment complex early Tuesday morning.
More than 200 shell casings were found in the Springville Landing apartment complex on Huffman Road by Birmingham police after the shooting between two groups of people who knew each other.
It started around 1:25 a.m., according to police. The shooting started from a fight in the parking lot.
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Nine apartments and 24 cars were shot into, police said.
The child's apartment was caught in the crossfire of the shootout and no one in the victim's apartment was being targeted, police said. The mother told police her son had been shot and he was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injures that didn't require surgery.
Police said no other injuries have been reported.
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Five people of interest have been detained.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call police at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available. Stay updated on the latest stories with the WVTM 13 app. You can download it here.