A local pastor described Philstavious Dowdell, one of the victims of an Alabama mass shooting, as “one of the nicest young men that you could ever meet.”
One of the four people killed in a mass shooting in Dadeville, Alabama, on Saturday night has been identified as a star high school football player named Philstavious Dowdell, according to local media.
At a dance studio, a shooter opened fire at a 16-year-old’s birthday party in the small Alabama town at about 10:35 p.m., killing four people and leaving several others injured—marking the latest in a wave of mass shootings that have rattled the United States in recent weeks. According to the Gun Violence Archive, an organization that tracks shootings across the country, there have been at least 163 mass shootings in the U.S. so far in 2023.
“He was a very, very humble child. Never messed with anybody. Always had a smile on his face,” she told the newspaper.
