Notable shootings in the U.S. state of Alabama include:
| Incident | Location | Date | Deaths | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuskegee University shooting | Tuskegee | November 10, 2024 | 1 | 12 | 13 | A teenager not affiliated with the university killed and twelve others injured. Four suffered other injuries. |
| 1902 Tuscumbia shootings | Tuscumbia | April 6, 1902 | 8 | 2 | 10 | Man shot and killed members of police posse before being shot himself. |
| 1994 Popeyes shooting | Gadsden | April 16, 1994 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 2024 Baldwin County shooting | Baldwin County | May 11, 2024 | 3 | 15 | 18 | May Day celebration |
| September 2024 Birmingham shooting | Birmingham | September 21, 2024 | 4 | 17 | 21 | Multiple shooters targeting people outside a lounge bar. |
| 2020 Morgan County shooting | Morgan County | Jun. 4, 2020 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Huntsville birthday party shooting | Huntsville | Jan. 7, 2023 | 2 | 13 | 15 | Birthday party |
| July 2024 North Birmingham nightclub party shooting | Birmingham | July 13, 2024 | 4 | 10 | 14 | Drive-by shooting at a birthday party hosted by a nightclub |
| Geneva County shootings | Geneva | March 10, 2009 | 11 | 6 | 17 | Shooting spree by man targeting family and others |
| 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting | Huntsville | February 12, 2010 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis | Midland City | January 29, 2013 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2016 Citronelle homicides | Citronelle | August 20, 2016 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Killing of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. | Hoover | November 22, 2018 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Vestavia Hills church shooting | Vestavia Hills | June 16, 2022 | 3 | 3 | Gun dealer opened fire at a potluck meeting | |
| 2023 Dadeville shooting | Dadeville | April 15, 2023 | 4 | 32 | 36 | Shooting at a 16th birthday party celebration |
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.
George Corley Wallace Jr. was the 45th governor of Alabama, serving from 1963 to 1967, again from 1971 to 1979, and finally from 1983 to 1987. He is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. During Wallace's tenure as governor of Alabama, he promoted "industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools." Wallace unsuccessfully sought the United States presidency as a Democratic Party candidate three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate, carrying five states in the 1968 election. Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his very controversial 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".
The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public research university in Mobile, Alabama. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in May 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama. The first classes were held in June 1964, with an enrollment of 276 students; the first commencement was held in June 1967, with 88 bachelor's degrees awarded.
Riverchase Galleria, locally known as The Galleria, is a large, super–regional shopping mall and mixed use development in Hoover, Alabama, in the Greater Birmingham metropolitan area. It is ranked 43rd on the list of largest shopping malls in the United States. It is the largest enclosed shopping center in Alabama.
The Tuskegee National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Macon County, Alabama, just north of Tuskegee and west of Auburn. The topography is level to moderately sloping, with broad ridges with stream terraces and broad floodplains.
The Montgomery Advertiser is a daily newspaper and news website located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1829.
"Stars Fell on Alabama" is a 1934 jazz standard composed by Frank Perkins with lyrics by Mitchell Parish.
The Alabama Sports Festival was founded in 1982 at the request of the United States Olympic Committee and is a member of the National Congress of State Games. The Summer Games, an effort of the Alabama Sports Festival, Inc., is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, providing opportunities to compete in Olympic-style games.
Jimmie Lee Jackson was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.
The Election Massacre of 1874, or Coup of 1874, took place on election day, November 3, 1874, near Eufaula, Alabama in Barbour County. Freedmen comprised a majority of the population and had been electing Republican candidates to office. Members of an Alabama chapter of the White League, a paramilitary group supporting the Democratic Party's drive to regain political power in the county and state, used firearms to ambush black Republicans at the polls.
James Walton Aldridge Jr. is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.
On March 10, 2009, Michael Kenneth McLendon, 28, fatally shot ten people and wounded six others between the communities of Kinston, Samson, and Geneva, Alabama. McLendon's shooting spree was the deadliest mass shooting in Alabama's history.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Alabama:
On February 12, 2010, three people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. During a routine meeting of the biology department attended by approximately 12 people, Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the university, began shooting those nearest her with a Ruger P95 handgun.
On November 22, 2018, Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., an African-American man, was shot three times from behind and killed by Hoover police officer David Alexander on the night of Thanksgiving, at the Riverchase Galleria shopping mall in Hoover, Alabama. Police responded to a shooting at the mall where two people were shot. Another African-American man suspected in the first shooting was arrested in Georgia a week later and charged in the shooting of one of those injured. Bradford was holding a legally owned weapon when shot and was not involved in the prior shooting incident, although near the crime scene. The shooting of Bradford was immediately controversial, and was condemned by the Alabama National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as an example of racially biased policing.
The killing of Greg Gunn occurred on the morning of February 25, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama. Gunn, a 58-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed near his home after fleeing from a stop-and-frisk initiated by Aaron Cody Smith, a white police officer. Smith was charged with murder and indicted by a grand jury in 2016. The case came to trial in late 2019 following a change of venue to Ozark, Alabama. Smith was found guilty of manslaughter, and, in January 2020, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
