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Teens Charged in Dadeville Massacre

Posted on | April 19, 2023 | 4 Comments

Sgt. Jeremy Burkett speaks at press conference

Breaking news today in Alabama:

Two teenage brothers have been charged with four counts of reckless murder in the Saturday night shooting at a Dadeville birthday party that killed four young people and injured 32 others.
Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, both of Tuskegee, have each been charged as adults with four counts of reckless murder.
The two were taken into custody abut 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Under Alabama law, the crime of reckless murder is committed when a person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to a person other than himself or herself and causes the death of another person.
“There is a tremendous amount of work to do. We’re going to be careful with everything we say and everything we do. We’re going to stay focused on the victims and their families,” said Sgt. Jeremy Burkett of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
Burkett said he could not disclose where the teens were arrested or where they are being held. Burkett would not say how many guns were fired or how many shots were fired.
He said investigators are not yet releasing a motive, nor saying how many shooters they believe were involved. . . .

This tight-lipped attitude has been frustrating for much of the public, and Alabama law enforcement is aware of that frustration:

“Please understand with the violence that went on and the magnitude of what happened, we are absolutely still in the early stages of this investigation. This is not the end,” Burkett said. “There is a tremendous amount of work that is yet to be done. We’re going to continue to do exactly what we’ve been doing.” . . .
“I know there has been a frustration… about a lack of communication provided,” said District Attorney Mike Segrest. . . .
Prosecutors will be requesting they be held without bond. . . .
In addition to the four homicides, there are multiple other victims. At least four of the 32 victims remain hospitalized in critical condition. More charges will be filed, Segrest said.
”When I tell you this is just the tip of the iceburg…we’re going to make sure everyone of those victims has justice and not just the deceased,’’ Segrest said. . . .
Dadeville Police Chief Jonathan Floyd said investigators are taking their time to make sure the cases result in convictions.
“This is the very beginning, and we have one chance to get this right,’’ Floyd said.
”We owe it to every person affected to make sure that we’re very slow, make sure we’re very methodical,’’ Floyd said.

Police have previously said that, based on the cartridge casing found at the scene, the shooters used pistols, not rifles. That’s kind of important, considering that the shameless fool Joe Biden used this Alabama shooting as an excuse to blame the NRA and Republicans for opposing “commonsense gun safety reforms,” when there is (as usual) zero evidence that any such “reforms” would have prevented this atrocity. Pretty sure it’s already against the law for minors to be carrying concealed pistols in Alabama and, while we haven’t yet seen mug shots of the McCullough brothers, I’m 99% certain they’re not MAGA-hat-wearing Young Republicans, IYKWIMAITYD. The biggest mystery here is the motive. Tuskegee is in Macon County, about 35 miles south of Dadeville. Why would two teenagers from out of town grab their guns and show up at this “Sweet 16” birthday party, ready to murder everybody inside?

In the immediate aftermath of the massacre, before we had any information about the suspects, my brother Kirby speculated that social media might have played a role in this. Maybe someone who had a beef with the McCullough brothers had posted something saying they’d be at this party, and that’s why they showed up in Dadeville. But wow, what a monstrous way to deal with petty adolescent rivalries.



 

 

Category: Alabama, Crime

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4 Responses to “Teens Charged in Dadeville Massacre”

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    […] When we last updated on Wednesday, two teenage brothers from Tuskegee, Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, had been charged in last weekend’s mass shooting at a “Sweet 16” birthday party in Dadesville, Alabama, that left four dead and dozens injured. Late Wednesday night, Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, of Auburn was added to the list of those arrested and charged in the shooting, and then yesterday, authorities announced the arrest of Johnny Letron Brown, 20, of Tuskegee, and Willie George Brown, 19, both of Auburn. Later, it was announced that a sixth suspect, also from Tuskegee, was under arrest, but because he is only 15 years old, we don’t yet know his name. […]

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    […] When we last updated on Wednesday, two teenage brothers from Tuskegee, Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, had been charged in last weekend’s mass shooting at a “Sweet 16” birthday party in Dadesville, Alabama, that left four dead and dozens injured. Late Wednesday night, Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, of Auburn was added to the list of those arrested and charged in the shooting, and then yesterday, authorities announced the arrest of Johnny Letron Brown, 20, of Tuskegee, and Willie George Brown, 19, of Auburn. Later, it was announced that a sixth suspect, also from Tuskegee, was under arrest, but because he is only 15 years old, we don’t yet know his name. […]

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