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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andrea Blanco,Joe Sommerlad and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Alabama shooting – update: Six suspects including boy, 15, arrested over Dadeville Sweet 16 party attack

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Dadeville shooting survivor speaks from hospital bed

Six suspects have now been arrested over the mass shooting at a “Sweet 16” birthday party that left four people dead and 32 injured in Dadeville, Alabama.

On Thursday, authorities announced that three more suspects were taken into custody including a 15-year-old who has not been named due to his age, Johnny Letron Brown, 20, and Willie George Brown Jr., 19.

The arrests bring the total number of people arrested over the shooting to six after the earlier arrests of Wilson LaMar Hill Jr, 20, and brothers Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16.

All six have been charged with four counts of reckless murder.

The latest arrests come five days after the horror attack at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio on Saturday night.

High school football star Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, 18, was one of the four killed in the incident and it has emerged that he died saving the life of his sister Alexis, whose birthday celebration it was.

Shaunkivia Nicole “KeKe” Smith, 17, Marsiah Collins, 19, and Corbin Holston, 23, were also killed.

No motive has been outlined by the police.

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