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| AAA??Jul. 18, 2012?5:06 PM ET APNewBreak: Witness says Ala rampage included slur By JAY REEVESBy JAY REEVES, Associated Press?  ?This booking photograph released by the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Department shows Nathan Van Wilkins, 44, who was charged in an early morning shooting that left 17 people injured in a bar in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Police said Wilkins was charged initially with one count of attempted murder, but other charges will be filed. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Department) This booking photograph released by the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Department shows Nathan Van Wilkins, 44, who was charged in an early morning shooting that left 17 people injured in a bar in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Police said Wilkins was charged initially with one count of attempted murder, but other charges will be filed. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Department) A crime scene unit investigates a home at 4106 4th Ave. East near Watermelon Road in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Tuesday, July 17, 2012 where a shooting on Monday injured one person, and allegedly lead to a related shooting early Tuesday that wounded nearly a dozen people, at a bar in Tuscaloosa. A gunman who fired into a crowded bar turned himself in Tuesday, several hours after the rampage, police said. Police have not identified him. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa News, Dusty Compton) A crime scene unit investigates a home at 4106 4th Ave. East near Watermelon Road in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Tuesday, July 17, 2012 where a shooting on Monday injured one person, and allegedly lead to a related shooting early Tuesday that wounded nearly a dozen people, at a bar in Tuscaloosa. A gunman who fired into a crowded bar turned himself in Tuesday, several hours after the rampage, police said. Police have not identified him. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa News, Dusty Compton) A crime scene unit investigates a home at 4106 4th Ave. East near Watermelon Road in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Tuesday, July 17, 2012 where a shooting on Monday injured one person, and allegedly lead to a related shooting early Tuesday that wounded nearly a dozen people, at a bar in Tuscaloosa. A gunman who fired into a crowded bar turned himself in Tuesday, several hours after the rampage, police said. Police have not identified him. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa News, Dusty Compton) Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson, center right, partially obscured, speaks to the media on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in response to a shooting earlier that morning in Temerson Square where a gunman fired into a crowded downtown bar near the University of Alabama campus and wounded nearly a dozen people. The gunman was taken into custody Tuesday, police said. (AP PhotoTuscaloosa News, Robert Sutton) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ? The roommate of a man wounded in an Alabama shooting rampage says the gunman came to their door looking for a black man, uttered a racial slur and opened fire. Brian Felton lives at the house where authorities say Nathan Van Wilkins wounded his first victim before shooting into a nearby bar. In all, 18 people were wounded. Felton says a man he lives with, who is white, answered the door Monday and the gunman asked for another roommate, who's black. Felton says he heard the gunfire and found the white roommate wounded. Later, his injured roommate told him the gunman had used a racial epithet. Felton says his black roommate wasn't home and had been at the bar where the later shooting happened. A detective for the sheriff's department says that they haven't gotten concrete information to show there were racial motives behind the shooting. Associated Press |
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