US: 2 killed, 3 injured in shooting at Birmingham nightclub

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At least two persons were killed while three others were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in US' Alabama, CNN reported. Shortly afterwards, shots were fired at a vehicle arriving at a hospital emergency room, targeting people who may have been injured in the nightclub shooting.

The first shooting occurred at a Birmingham nightclub on 5th Avenue North early Labor Day morning, according to CNN affiliate WVTM. The shooting took place at 2:17 am on Monday morning when a vehicle arrived at the emergency department with individuals believed to have been injured in an earlier off-site shooting, as per a University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital spokesperson.

'The shooter immediately fled the scene,â¿Â the spokesperson said, as per CNN. The reports of shootings in the US have become more common for the residents and the mass-shooting is an increasingly alarming problem in the United States. Earlier, A 17-year-old boy was shot dead by the police after he allegedly killed a police dog and pointed his gun at officers, authorities in Georgia said, CNN reported.

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The teenager has been identified as Stephon Ford by Clayton County Police Department Assistant Chief Bruce Parks during a news conference on Saturday. Parks said that the shooting happened in Jonesboro, Georgia, which is about 17 miles south of Atlanta, just before 2 am. On August 28, another report of a shooting was reported where a faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was shot dead on campus, and a suspect has been taken into custody, according to a school spokesman, CNN reported.

The incident caused people to seek shelter for several hours while police investigated. At 1:02 pm ET, shots were reportedly fired at the school's Caudill Laboratories. Shortly after 2:30 pm, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz confirmed that a suspect had been taken into custody.

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