Alabama’s top elected officials stayed publicly silent about Saturday night’s mass shooting in Birmingham until Monday. Gov. Kay Ivey, Attorney General Steve Marshall, and Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth did not issue statements or post on their X accounts about the gunfire that killed four people and injured 17 others,

The person, or people, who carried out the Alabama mass shooting at the weekend may have been paid to kill, police said. Multiple rounds of shots were fired in the popular Five Points South neighborhood in Birmingham,