Five men were murdered in execution-style shootings after a botched robbery in Birmingham, Alabama, police say.
Officers discovered the bodies in a bullet-riddled home about 3.30am Sunday after they were called to a robbery in progress.
Now detectives are hunting the suspects who massacred the residents of the house as they search for clues about what might have caused the attack.
‘It obviously appears to us this horrific crime was not a random act of violence,’ Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper told the Birmingham News.
The names of the victims have not been released, but in the small neighborhood where the shootings occurred, family members were already beginning to fear the worst.
The house where the slayings occurred was rented by a woman in her 40s, who has been living there with her son and her brothers for about a year and a half, neighbors said.
Brenda Houston, 64, lives across the street from the west Birmingham house where the bodies were found, said she knew little about her neighbors: ‘We didn’t know their names but they were always friendly.’
Houston, 64, said her street was a quiet one filled with older residents who were friendly with each other. She said there was a constant stream of visitors coming in and out of the home, but that the residents never seemed to cause any disturbances.
Most people are in a state of shock. They never had any trouble over there,’ Houston said.
Houston went on to say ”I never seen the police over there. This was really strange that this happened. It wasn’t like they were real rowdy.’
The families of the slain men started to gather at the house of the fatal shooting in deep remorse.
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