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Birmingham student critically injured in shooting outside Woodlawn High School basketball game
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Birmingham student critically injured in shooting outside Woodlawn High School basketball game

A teenager was critically injured in a shooting outside Woodlawn High School Tuesday night.

gunfire erupted just before 10 p.m. after a basketball game at the school.

Sgt. LaQuitta Wade a group of people got into an altercation behind the school.

The victim and his friends got into their vehicles and attempted to drive away.

The suspect fired shots, striking the teenager in the passenger seat. The teenager’s friends drove to the front of the school and reported that he had been shot.

Wade said the victim’s injuries are life-threatening.

He’s a student, but not at Woodlawn.

No one is in custody.

Birmingham City Schools spokeswoman Sherrel Wheeler Stewart said the shooting happened in the school parking lot and that one person was taken to the hospital.