Montgomery’s downtown entertainment district no longer allows visitors to walk around with alcoholic beverages, in response to last weekend’s mass shooting.

Licensed restaurants and bars in the district, which is near the riverfront, will continue to offer outdoor seating, and patrons may still enjoy alcoholic beverages within those areas. However, drinks must remain on the premises and cannot be taken into the street or other parts of the district.

City leaders voted unanimously Tuesday night to suspend the ordinance following the the mass shooting on Saturday night, October 4, which left two people dead and 12 others injured, some critically.

“Montgomery is a safe city, but the events of last weekend have led us to take a closer look at our open container ordinance,” Mayor Steven Reed

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