Two teenagers from Alabama were taken into custody and charged with the shooting at a birthday party of whom four people were killed and 32 others were injureda police spokesman announced today.

The suspects, Ty Rick McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, are from Tuskegee. They were arrested and charged with four counts of first degree murder, Chief Constable Jeremy Barkett said at a news conference.

The incident occurred Saturday at the Mahogany Masterpiece Ballroom in Dadeville, a community of 3,200 people northeast of Montgomery, where a 16-year-old girl was celebrating her birthday.

“Don’t doubt it. This is Alabama, and when you pull a gun and start shooting people, we’re going to put you in jail. We’re tired of going to mothers and having to tell them their kids aren’t coming home,” Barkett said.

Of the nine injured people still hospitalized, five are in critical condition, said Heidi Smith, a spokeswoman for Lake Martin Hospital.

Three teenagers and a 23-year-old man were killed by the gunfire of the two minors. One of the victims was the celebrant’s brother, a high school student and member of the local football team. The Montgomery Advertiser, citing his grandmother, reported that he was Phil Dowdell, who was set to graduate in a few weeks and intended to attend Jacksonville University on an athletic scholarship.

The other three victims are Sonkivia Smith, 17, Marsha Collis, 19, and Corbin Holston, 23.