Alabama town mourns after 4 killed at teen birthday party

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Students in the tiny Alabama town of Dadeville wore their black and gold school colors Monday as they mourned two seniors who were among four young people killed by gunfire at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend.

Less than six weeks from graduation, faculty, staff and students filed past flags at half-staff to meet counselors waiting to talk about the shooting, which also injured 28 at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio off the courthouse square. The school, with its 485 students in grades 6-12, is central to community life in Dadeville, population 3,200, where "Home of the Tigers" is painted on the water tower and local businesses sport signs proclaiming "This is Tiger Country.

The weekend was marked by a series of high-profile shootings in the U.S. One left two people dead and four wounded Saturday in Louisville, Missouri; another resulted in four men being shot -- one fatally -- in Los Angeles; and a third left two women wounded at Lincoln University in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Those killed were identified as Marsiah Emmanuel "Siah" Collins, 19, of Opelika; Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 23, of Dadeville; Philstavious "Phil" Dowdell, 18, of Camp Hill and Shaunkivia Nicole "Keke" Smith, 17, of Dadeville, Tallapoosa County Coroner Mike Knox told The Associated Press on Monday. Relatives had identified Dowdell and Smith on Sunday.

"He did some amazing things there, and he never stopped doing them since then," Taylor said of Dowdell, who also played basketball and was a track standout. "He was the No. 1 athlete in the school."

 

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Blacks killing blacks. The vast majority of gun violence in the US is black on black.

The good old USA mourns everyday with the slaying of kids. It will keep mourning until gun laws change and we all know that will never happen.

5 teens in MANITOBA die because of a culture of vehicle taunting. But American kids dying is more important to CTV.

You are a news station in Canada.Stop doing this it's a feeble attempt at extrapolation of problems from one country to another. That's the problem with you Canadian left Wingers you're not Canadian or left at all you're goddamned American Democrats.

That is a really long article. Why do you not cut to the chase, blame it on white on black crime, then when the truth comes out that it is another case of black-on-black crime you burry the story.

Take away the damn video games already! Thats the problem!

Merica and their guns

When one person is killed in Canada that is the equivalent of ten in the US.

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