"For more than eight hours after the incident, law enforcement released no details about the shooting, the victims or the suspect."
I guess they want to pretend it didn't happen.
From the BBC report of the incident.
The governor is a strong supporter of second amendment rights - the right to keep and bear arms - and last year signed legislation abolishing the requirement in Alabama to get a permit to carry a concealed handgun in public.
Her candidacy for last year's governor election was endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
The people interviewed keep saying "this isn't Dadeville," and yet they had a similar mass shooting in 2016 at the American Legion.
It's like CO, where they've multitudes just in the Columbine area.