Fifth individual charged over taking pictures that killed 4 at sixteenth birthday celebration in Alabama

A fifth individual has been arrested and charged in reference to a taking pictures at a sixteenth birthday celebration that killed 4 younger folks.

It comes simply hours after a fourth individual was charged over the deaths within the small east Alabama metropolis of Dadeville on 15 April.

The two males – Willie George Brown Jr, 19, of Auburn, and Johnny Letron Brown, 20, of Tuskegee – have each been charged with 4 counts of reckless homicide.

Three others beforehand arrested – Tyreese “Ty Reik” McCullough, 17, of Tuskegee; Travis McCullough, 16, of Tuskegee and Wilson LaMar Hill Jr, 20, of Auburn – are additionally dealing with the identical fees, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency stated.

The youngsters might be tried as adults, as required by Alabama legislation when anybody 16 or older is charged with homicide.

Those killed ranged in age from 17 to 23, together with the birthday woman’s brother Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, 18, who died as his sister knelt beside him begging him to maintain respiration.

Philstavious and fellow sufferer Shaunkivia Nicole “KeKe” Smith, 17, had been highschool seniors.

The different two killed had been Marsiah Emmanuel “Siah” Collins, 19, and Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 23.

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Another 32 folks had been injured – 4 of them critically.

The birthday taking pictures was the sixteenth mass killing within the US this yr – a seventeenth occurred within the state of Maine on Tuesday.

Some 88 folks have died in mass shootings to this point in 2023.

The figures are in accordance with a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today with Northeastern University, which defines a mass killing because the deaths of 4 or extra folks other than the perpetrator.