Days after an April 15 mass shooting at an Alabama teen’s birthday party, local police have shared limited information regarding any possible suspects.
The shooting killed four people and wounded 28 others, and now the community asking why it is taking law enforcement so long to provide basic answers.
The Dadeville Police Department and Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Office are working together on the case. The two local law enforcement agencies are with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI to investigate the crime.
Sgt. Jeremy Burkett of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency hosted three news conferences since Saturday, each time asking for the public to come forward with any information regarding the shooting in Dadeville, the Montgomery Advertiser reports.
“Even the smallest detail can be important,” Burkett stated during a Sunday public check-in.
However, officials took no questions from reporters and did not provide basic details in the case until Monday afternoon. Some residents voiced their concerns over why those hired to protect and serve aren’t further along in their probe.
Dadeville native Erica Jackson told reporters she was confused about what is being done to make arrests.
“I was hoping to hear that they had the people responsible. We need to know. Are they still out there? Why won’t anybody tell us anything?” Jackson asked.
Teneeshia Johnson told NPR during a candlelight vigil on Sunday night that she was frustrated that authorites weren’t saying more.
According to police, Dadeville is one municipality in Alabama that does not have a public safety emergency plan in place for situations like this. This may have hindered the town ability to respond to one of America’s 162nd mass shootings since the top of 2023.
Police have not dropped a “be on the lookout” or BOLO with suspect descriptions, and other agencies say they have not…
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