Police believe more people were involved in the shootout at a Woodlawn High School reunion picnic and they are asking for witnesses to come forward.

Hundreds of people were gathered at the school last Saturday, July 12, but Officer De’Rell Freeman said not enough people have been willing to tell police what they know or saw.

“We know that somebody knows something. Somebody knows all the parties,” Freeman said. “They ‘ve been slow coming forward or they’re not coming forward at all.”

“Our detectives want way more information than what they have at this point,” he said.

Four men have been charged with first-degree assault – Camron Hinton, 22, Freddy Hurst III, 22, D’Andre Watkins, 27, and Stefon Todd, 28.

The shooting happened shortly after 7 p.m. in back parking lot of the school in the 5600 block of First Avenue, seriously injuring an innocent bystander and damaging multiple cars.

Police responded to the school after the city’s Shot Spotter gunfire detection system picked up one incident of three shots fired, and then a second burst with 10 shots fired.

Officers arrived to find about seven vehicles damaged by the gunfire.

A young woman then showed up a short time later at UAB Hospital with gunshot injuries. She told staff she was shot at Woodlawn High School.

“There are more individuals that were involved,” Freeman said. “These guys had something going on and they chose to meet up at Woodlawn to settle their beef.”

Freeman said police want everyone involved to be held accountable.

“We know it’s a cultural thing with the no-snitch thing going on,” he said. “They’d rather say something on the internet instead of coming directly to the source which is the police department.”

“We’re trying to break that stigma and let them know you can come talk to us,” he said. “Even if you don’t want to us, talk to Crime stoppers. You can be anonymous and eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.”

The school had reunion activities all week, culminating Saturday with a picnic and other festivities at the school.

“There are other schools that will be having their class picnics and reunions in the coming weeks,” Freeman said. “We want everybody to be comfortable and be safe.”

“When situations like this happen, it causes us to put special attention on the other class days,” he said. “We want everybody to enjoy these things, and we don’t want to have to stop them, but when you have situations like this, the conversations come up.”

Anyone with information is asked to felony assault detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.