In Birmingham, Alabama, cops are digging into a terrible incident where four guys were shot. This happened last Friday afternoon when the police rushed over after hearing about a bunch of gunshots. They found four people not moving at all, just lying there near a vacant spot, according to what the police shared. It looked like they all got shot.
The guys who didn’t make it were Terrell Edwards and Kevin McGhee, both 38, Cortez Ray, 32, and Talton Tate, 36. Edwards, Ray, and Tate were gone right there and then. McGhee was rushed to UAB Hospital because he was in really bad shape, but he didn’t survive either.
Cops think this wasn’t random; someone meant to shoot one or more of these guys. They were all at a local car wash hanging out when someone unknown came up and started shooting at them, the police mentioned.
Cops haven’t caught anyone yet, but they’re asking if anyone knows anything about the shooting to please call them.
“It’s really disgusting that these things continue to happen in our city over and over again and people have got to learn other ways to resolve their conflicts or come to some kind of resolution other than resorting to gunfire,” Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond told CBS affiliate WIAT-TV. “It disturbs the whole entire neighborhood over here. It’s just very disturbing for us as law enforcement officers trying to provide a safer city for all the citizens of Birmingham.”
After this shooting, cops in Birmingham are now looking into 12 murders that happened this year.