Authorities have released the name of the fourth person killed in a barrage of automatic gunfire in a mass shooting in a popular Birmingham entertainment district.
Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, of Birmingham, died at UAB Hospital shortly after Saturday’s nights shooting. Authorities previously identified the other homicide victims as Anitra Holloman, 21, Tahj Booker, 27, and Carlos McCain, 27.
Seventeen other people were reported injured after a hail of bullets were fired into a crowd outside of the Hush lounge in Five Points South.
Officer Truman Fitzgerald on Monday said four of the surviving victims have life-threatening injuries.
A press conference is set for this morning to provide additional updates in the ongoing investigation.
No arrests have been made.
It was just after 11 p.m. Saturday when Birmingham’s 911 dispatchers received multiple calls of shots fired.
While police were en route, officers learned multiple people were shot and the scene was quickly deemed a mass casualty incident.
Hollomon, Booker and McCaine were found unresponsive on the sidewalk. They were pronounced dead on the scene within moments.
Officers from the city’s other precincts were brought in to help control the chaos, and at least 50 Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service personnel – 15 units – also responded.
Police quickly cordoned off a blocks-wide perimeter as hundreds stood among the chaos, many crying and trying to find their loved ones and friends.
Witnesses said many of the victims were standing in line outside Hush when the bullets were unleashed.
Victims were treated at UAB Hospital, Princeton Baptist Medical Center, Brookwood Medical Center and St. Vincent’s.
Fitzgerald said the surviving 17 victims – both male and female – sustained injuries ranging from non-life-threatening to critical.
Police said the shooters are believed to have used machine gun conversion devices. More than 100 shell casings were collected at the scene.
Chief Scott Thurmond said it appears one of the victims was targeted – a murder-for-hire – and the rest of the victims were collateral damage.
In total, Birmingham has reported 123 homicides and three large mass casualty shooting events so far in 2024. Three people were shot Sunday night, one of them fatally, and authorities said they have not ruled out a possible link to the Five Points South shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
