Public Safety · Dallas, TX
Halloween Night Shootings Kill Six Across Five US Cities
Police reported four dead and 15 injured in separate shootings in Dallas's Deep Ellum neighborhood on Halloween night, with investigators still determining whether the incidents were connected. A mass shooting near Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, killed one person and wounded eight others after the Magic City Classic football game between Alabama State and Alabama A&M drew nearly 70,000 fans. Six people were shot shortly after 11:10 p.m. Saturday near the University of Delaware campus in Newark, Delaware, closing a stretch of Main Street for several hours. In Bloomington, Illinois, a shooting near Illinois Wesleyan University early Sunday killed a 19-year-old woman and critically injured another, while six people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after an altercation in Fayetteville, Arkansas.