U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) put Montgomery on notice Tuesday night after a Labor Day weekend that left 10 people shot and one dead in Alabama’s capital city.
“This WILL NOT continue,” Tuberville wrote.
This WILL NOT continue. pic.twitter.com/Gj2LXSnu1W
— Tommy Tuberville (@CoachForGov) September 9, 2026
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Montgomery police say the gunfire came in five separate incidents from Friday evening through early Monday morning. Two men were shot Friday on the city’s west side.
On Saturday, three men were shot while sitting in a vehicle, and a 34-year-old man, identified by police as Michael Miller, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in what investigators called a “targeted attack.” Police said Miller “was known to law enforcement authorities from prior interactions.”
On Sunday afternoon, two juveniles turned up at area hospitals with possible life-threatening injuries after a shooting at a McDonald’s; officers found no victims at the scene.
Just after midnight on Labor Day, two men were shot in what police believe was an “illicit transaction that escalated” into both men exchanging gunfire.
No arrests have been announced in any of the five cases.
Montgomery Police Chief Jim Graboys said Tuesday that five of the nine surviving victims are refusing to cooperate with investigators and have declined to prosecute anyone.
Tuberville has been sounding the alarm for over a year.
After the October downtown mass shooting that killed two and wounded 12, he called the capital a “WAR ZONE.”
Asked last August whether he would send the Alabama National Guard into Montgomery as governor, he answered, “You betcha,” and called it “one of the first things” he would do.
Tuberville faces Doug Jones on November 3 and takes office in January.
Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.
