This image taken from video provided by WSFA shows the scene after a shooting earlier Saturday in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (WSFA via AP)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A third person was arrested and charged Thursday in connection with a shooting that killed two people and injured 12 others in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city in early October, police said.
Javorick Whiting, 19, is charged with attempted murder, according to police.
Whiting is the third suspect charged for his alleged role in the Oct. 4 shooting that unfolded just before midnight in a crowded section of the city’s downtown filled with bars, hotels and restaurants. Police also arrested an last Friday and 19-year-old on Monday on capital murder charges.
It was not immediately known if Whiting had a lawyer who could comment for him.
A 43-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy , police said. Investigators said they determined that multiple people fired weapons in a crowd just after the Tuskegee-Morehouse College football game had ended blocks away, after a day celebrating the two historically Black schools' longstanding rivalry. At the time, five of the wounded had life-threatening injuries and seven had non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators have not said what led to the shooting, but that they believed the initial gunfire targeted one of the 14 victims, prompting multiple people to pull their own weapons and start firing back. Seven of the 14 victims were under 20, and the youngest was 16. At least two of the victims were armed.
Multiple weapons and shell cases were recovered from the scene, and more arrests are expected, police said.
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