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A teenager was arrested after a shooting killed one person and injured another at a peanut parade.
Mekhi Nasir Lawton was taken into custody by police in Dothan, Alabama for the deadly shooting at a parade marking the city’s annual National Peanut Festival.
Lawton, 18, opened fire into a crowd at an intersection on the parade route. The shooting caused a mass panic. Parade floats were still driving past the crowd when spectators heard gunshots.
‘This is the most chaotic scene I’ve ever been involved with,’ Dothan Police Major Will Glover said.