TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP/CBS) - Police said the gunman who fired into a crowded bar near the University of Alabama turned himself in to authorities.
Police Chief Steve Anderson said the man went to a business about 45 miles north of the shooting in Tuscaloosa. The man told employees at the business in Jasper that he was the suspect authorities were looking for. The employees called police and he was taken into custody.
The police chief would not identify the man. Anderson said he still doesn't know what the motive is, but they are investigating whether it involved a dispute between rival motorcycle gangs.
Police believe the rampage was connected to an earlier shooting at a home.
Nearly a dozen people were wounded by gunfire at the Copper Top bar. One person was in critical condition.
Elizabeth Walters was inside the Copper Top bar in Tuscaloosa when the shooting started early Tuesday. She said glass and metal fragments were flying everywhere as people ran and crawled to get away.
Police said the gunman fired through a window, and then shot people as they ran outside. Police were searching for the shooter.
Hospital spokesman Brad Fisher said most of the injured were hit by bullet fragments or bits of masonry.
Surveillance video released by police showed a man described as a suspect. He is seen from the back as he walks down a sidewalk with what appears to be a gun in one hand.
Riley Dunn, a University of Alabama senior who was injured in the shooting, estimated that there were 80 to 90 people in the area at the time, near a bar in the area of Temerson Square.
Eyewitnesses told CBS Affiliate WIAT that the Copper Top bar was hosting its weekly pool tournament when gunfire broke out.
Dunn said there was one gunshot, then about 20 seconds later "that's when he really started firing them off," and everyone scattered.
Dunn, who was shot in the leg, told WIAT, said he didn't see the gunman shooting. "All we seen was sparks and people ducking and the glass busting," he said. "I felt something hit me. We all took off and sort of hid."
Several patrons chased after the shooter.
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Police respond to a shooting at a downtown Tuscaloosa, Ala., bar in the early hours of Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Sixteen people were wounded, four critically. (WIAT)
Police released this photo of the suspect wanted for the shooting at a downtown bar early Tuesday, July 17, 2012. (Credit: Tuscaloosa Police Dept.)
