Two teenagers and a 20-year-old man have been arrested and charged with reckless murder in connection with a shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party in rural Alabama, investigators announced Wednesday.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency announced that Tyreese “Ty Reik” McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, both of Tuskegee — along with Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, of Auburn — had been charged with four counts of reckless murder. Tallapoosa County District Attorney Mike Segrest said the two teens would be tried as adults, an automatic requirement for anyone 16 or older charged with murder in Alabama.
State law defines reckless murder as when someone causes a death by acting with extreme indifference to human life and recklessly engaging in conduct which creates a grave risk of death. “I just feel broken to know he is not with me,” Dowdell’s mother, LaTonya Allen said. “But I do feel a little peace knowing they arrested somebody.” The arrests were announced the same day Dowdell’s mother met with the funeral home to discuss details for his burial.
The shooting was the 16th mass killing of the year in the U.S. A 17th took place in Maine on Tuesday. A total of 88 people have died in the killings so far in 2023. A mass killing is defined as when four or more people are slain, other than the perpetrator, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
Segrest said dozens of teens from several nearby towns attended the party, the trauma rippling over the region like a “wave” on water.
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