Crime & Safety

Man Killed In Wednesday Night Shooting In Northport

Investigators are on the scene of a fatal shooting that occurred Wednesday night in Northport.

(Ryan Phillips, Patch.com)

NORTHPORT, AL — Investigators are on the scene of a fatal shooting that occurred Wednesday night in Northport.


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Captain Marty Sellers of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit said just before 10 p.m. that Northport Police and investigators from the multi-agency task force responded to the initial call of a shooting in the 11400 block of Fairwood Avenue in Northport's Huntington Place subdivision.

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Sellers told local media that a man was dead but declined to provide any additional details at this stage of the investigation.


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