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2 men wearing nylon masks killed, 1 other hurt in Birmingham shootout during apparent robbery in Avondale<\/a><\/p>\n

A shooting in south Birmingham left two people dead, and at least one other injured.<\/p>\n

Multiple shots rang out about 11 a.m. Friday in the 4400 block of Fifth Avenue South. That location is the Oak Tree Apartments.<\/p>\n

One man was pronounced dead in the parking lot. He was on the ground next to a work van, still wearing a black mask.<\/p>\n

Two others were rushed to UAB Hospital where a second man was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

A third person sustained non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Both men who were killed were wearing black nylon face masks, similar to the mask often worn by rapper Pooh Sheisty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe all of this stemmed from a robbery gone wrong,\u2019\u2019 said Officer Truman Fitzgerald. \u201cTwo of the victims both have ski masks on, the Pooh Sheisty mask.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe the third non-life-threatening victim may have shot them in attempted robbery,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

He said detectives don\u2019t believe Friday\u2019s robbery attempt was a crime of opportunity \u2013 the person being robbed was likely targeted.<\/p>\n

At least 13 shots were fired.<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald said Friday\u2019s victims are second and third homicide victims this week who were wearing the \u201cPooh Sheisty\u201d face masks when they were killed. A 19-year-old killed in a Saturday night shootout outside East Lake Park was also wearing the same mask, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t stress to you enough how important people, places and behaviors factor into the violence that is going on in our city,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are two men in 90-degree weather wearing ski masks,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cYou tell us what you think they were up to. That\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The surviving victim, he said, were not with the men that were being killed.<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald said the narrative so far this summer has been \u201cbroad daylight crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis just goes to show you the level of carelessness the criminal element has,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cAvondale Park is just walking distance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald said if the victims were in fact committing a crime, it\u2019s important to note that those things don\u2019t always go as planned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis comes from a place of love- young men, we live in Alabama where everybody has a gun,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cBefore you think you can get the drop on somebody, just remember that other person you think may be a victim, it doesn\u2019t always turn out that way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 men wearing nylon masks killed, 1 other hurt in Birmingham shootout during apparent robbery in Avondale A shooting in south Birmingham left two people dead, and at least one other injured. Multiple shots rang out about 11 a.m. Friday in the 4400 block of Fifth Avenue South. That location is the Oak Tree Apartments. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102581,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102580\/revisions\/102581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}