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An eight-year-old boy was killed and three other people were injured in a shooting incident inside a mall in Alabama, USA.
ABC News quoted the Alabama police as saying that it had "responded to reports of a shooting incident in the Riverchase Galleria shopping center in the city of Hoover, which killed an eight-year-old boy and wounded three others," noting that she had not made any arrests so far and that The cause of the shooting remains unknown.
The police evacuated the mall and began investigating the incident.
Shooting incidents have increased dramatically in the United States during the past months, coinciding with the rise in hate crimes, racial discrimination and general unrest in the country against the backdrop of anti-American police violence.
One person was killed and 11 others were injured on the 21 of last June due to a similar shooting incident in the city of Minneapolis.