Crime & Justice

DJ Says Partygoers Were Told ‘Someone Had a Gun’ Before Dadeville Massacre

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Keenan Cooper also described helping kids hide under a table when the shooting began.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

A man speaks on the phone while standing at the edge of the crime scene a day after a shooting at a teenager’s birthday party in a dance studio, in Dadeville, Alabama, April 16, 2023.
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Dan Ladden-Hall

Dan Ladden-Hall

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