Talented football player among the dead in dance studio shooting

Counselling will be available for students at Tallapoosa County schools on Monday, the school superintendent, Raymond C Porter, said.

Investigators work at the site of the shootings in downtown Dadeville (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

A high school student who had signed to play college football and was celebrating at his sister’s 16th birthday party was among the dead after a shooting in Alabama on Saturday night.

Police on Sunday were gathering evidence over the fatal shooting of four people at a dance studio where the party was held in downtown Dadeville.