Shooting reported in downtown Mobile before midnight on New Year’s Eve - Fox 10 News

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Police are investigating reports of shots fired successful downtown Mobile arsenic New Year’s Eve was being celebrated connected the streets.

Witnesses accidental respective radical were shot, though that has not been confirmed by police. People reported proceeding the gunshots and moving for cover.

FOX10 News has seen a viewer-submitted compartment telephone video clip that appears to amusement astatine slightest 2 evident victims connected the sidewalk.

Police and Mobile Fire-Rescue unit responded to downtown Mobile Saturday nighttime successful the hr earlier the caller twelvemonth arrived. They were called to the country of Dauphin Street betwixt Jackson and Joachim streets.

“It was terrifying,” said Carly Bragg, who was downtown for the New Year’s Eve celebration. “It sounded similar super-close fireworks. The timing of it was wild. We walked close past the area, and past it happened.”

Bragg said she and her friends hid wrong a corridor that was “maybe 15 to 20 feet distant from the dependable and noticed the model changeable retired of Urban Emporium erstwhile we realized however adjacent we were.”

A store proprietor connected South Royal Street told FOX10 News that New Year’s Eve celebrants poured into her store to question refuge aft the reported gunshots.

This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated. FOX10 News has crews successful the area.

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