A party with several hundred people in attendance at a private event venue in Pike County ended with one man dead.

The shooting happened just before 12:30 a.m. Sunday Hideaways on Gardner Bassett Road.

“We knew there was a huge party being planned,” Pike County Sheriff Russell Thomas said. “It was well-advertised. We had seen the flyers.”

“We were very concerned,” Thomas said. “And what we were afraid of happened.”

The sheriff said there were 300 to 350 people inside the venue when shots rang out inside the party.

The victim, a male in 20s from Dothan, made it to the front door where he collapsed and was pronounced dead a short time later.

Two deputies were nearby and were quickly on the scene, Thomas said.

“Once the shooting started, it was a mass exodus,” he said. “Everybody got i

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