Anthony Ford, a Birmingham resident, hangs out in Five Points multiple nights a week. It’s a home base for him. He’s worked in the service industry at various restaurants and bars, including as a previous barback for the Eighty Eight, owned by the same owner as Hush Lounge.

The Birmingham Police Department says four people are dead after a mass shooting in Five Points South Saturday night. Just after 11 p.m., Birmingham Police received a call of a shooting in the 2000 block of Magnolia Avenue.

Police in Birmingham, Alabama, are working to identify multiple people who opened fire in a bustling entertainment district Saturday night as part of what they called a targeted “hit” that left 4 dead and 17 injured – including many bystanders caught in the barrage of bullets.