Surveillance video captures bar shooting suspect

  • 12 years ago
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STORY: A gunman opened fire in a bar in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, early on Tuesday (July 17), wounding at least 16 people, four of them critically, the Tuscaloosa News reported, citing police sources.

The gunman remained at large, and police asked the public for help finding the suspect in a message sent by the city's Twitter feed.

Police declined to comment until a news conference scheduled for 10 a.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Tuesday.

A nursing supervisor at DCH Regional Medical Center said 17 people were being treated for injuries related to the shooting, two of them listed in critical condition.

Less than two hours after the shooting, the Tuscaloosa Police Department posted surveillance video of the suspected shooter on its Facebook and Twitter accounts.

The grainy video showed a man with a firearm walking past a row of parked cars toward the Copper Top bar. The suspect appeared to have a tattoo on his left arm.

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