Marsiah Emmanuel Collins Dead in Alabama shooting, cause of death and obituary

A small-town Alabama school was rocked by tragedy on Saturday night when a shooting took place at a teenager’s birthday party. Four people, including two Dadeville High School students, were killed, and 28 others were injured. The dead have been identified as Marsiah Emmanuel “Siah” Collins, 19, of Opelika; Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 23, of Dadeville; Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, 18, of Camp Hill, and Shaunkivia Nicole “Keke” Smith, 17, of Dadeville. It’s not yet clear who started the shooting and why, and investigators have made no arrests.

The shooting took place at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville, during a birthday party for Phil Dowdell’s sister. It’s not clear whether all 28 injured people were shot, but at least 15 with gunshot wounds were treated at Dadeville’s Lake Martin Community Hospital. Others were taken to other hospitals. The shooting left at least five bullet holes in the windows of the front of the dance studio.

Dowdell was a Dadeville High School student and an aspiring football player who had planned to attend Jacksonville State University. Shaunkivia Smith was also a Dadeville High senior who managed the basketball and track teams. Marsiah Collins had played football at Opelika High School and was an aspiring rapper who had planned to attend Louisiana State University. Corbin Holston was from Dadeville.

Antojuan Woody, a senior and fellow wide receiver with Dowdell on a Dadeville Tigers football team that went undefeated before losing in the second round of the playoffs last year, described the victims “as great people who didn’t deserve what happened to them.”

The shooting sparked a chaotic scene at the town’s small hospital, where emergency workers, relatives, and friends swarmed on Saturday.

Six people were treated and released locally, but others were transferred to larger hospitals in Birmingham, Montgomery, Opelika, and Columbus, Georgia. Transfers by helicopter were slowed by stormy weather on Saturday.

The shooting has had a devastating impact on the Dadeville community. Tallapoosa County Superintendent Raymond Porter has announced that counselors will be present at Dadeville High School to help students cope with the tragedy.

Flags flew at half-staff outside the school on Monday, and an electronic sign displayed information about the prom and make-up days to take college entrance exams.

The 485-student high school includes grades 6-12 and is a center of civic life in the small town, where “Home of the Tigers” is painted on the water tower. Dadeville, with a population of 3,200, is tucked off a busy highway that runs from Birmingham to Auburn near Lake Martin, a popular recreational area.

In the aftermath of the shooting, officials have repeatedly asked for anyone with information to come forward. The investigation into the tragedy is ongoing.

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