More than 100 protesters angry over the Thanksgiving night shooting death of Emantic Fitzgerald “E.J.” Bradford Jr. descended upon a couple of Hoover businesses Tuesday night and then briefly shut down a portion of Interstate 459.

Promising to protest every night, a caravan of dozens of vehicles arrived en masse at Walmart on Highway 150 about 8 p.m. Police officers from Hoover, Vestavia Hills and Alabaster, as well as Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies, were at the business and flanked protesters as they chanted and marched through the store.

Activists and protestors have gathered at the Walmart at John Hawkins highway in Hoover. They are demanding justice for EJ Bradford Jr. pic.twitter.com/y3Uz7BKhPM — Shauna Stuart (@ShaunaReporter) December 5, 2018

Store officials and police locked the doors during the protest, but shoppers continued to go about their business and were escorted out by Walmart employees when they were ready to leave.

After leaving Walmart, the group walked to nearby Buffalo Wild Wings, where they also entered that business and demanded justice for Bradford’s death at the hands of a Hoover police officer.

The caravan then took the protest to Interstate 459, getting on at Highway 150 and traveling slowly, with their hazard lights on, to the Interstate 65 interchange. At that point, a much smaller group got out of their vehicles, stood in the roadway and continued with their protest.

Protesters have left their cars on the ramp to interstate and are standing in the road on the I65 north ramp pic.twitter.com/r2oBh1pPIj — Anna Beahm (@_AnnaBeahm) December 5, 2018

Police blocked the Hoover entrances to I-459 during the protest. Dozens of lawmen, some riding on police SUV running boards, flocked to the scene and ultimately dispersed the crowd. Several large wreckers were brought in by the city and protesters were told if they did not move out of the roadway, their cars would be towed and they would be arrested. No arrests were made.

Previous protests have been held at the Galleria, Hoover City Hall, Sam’s Club and the home of Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato. They are demanding that video of the deadly shooting be released and also want the officer who shot Bradford to face criminal charges.

The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Thanksgiving night on the second floor of the Riverchase Galleria. Hoover police said an argument between several young men led to gunfire. Brian Wilson, 18, was wounded, as was bystander 12-year-old Molly Davis, who took a bullet to the back. Bradford was shot by a Hoover police officer, who was in uniform and on-duty as part of a beefed up holiday shopping detail.

Bradford was pronounced dead on the scene. Eight other people were treated by paramedics for injuries sustained while fleeing the gunfire.

Authorities said the incident began with an altercation between Bradford and his friend – Wilson - and at least two other young men. Police initially said Bradford was the person who shot Wilson and Molly, but a day after that shooting, retracted that statement to say he was involved in the initial altercation and brandishing a handgun but did not fire the shots that wounded the other two victims. City officials later apologized in a private meeting with Bradford’s family for saying he was the person who shot the other victims.

Six days after Bradford’s death, the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office issued an attempted murder warrant against 20-year-old Erron Martez Dequan Brown. He is charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Wilson.

Hoover police said they cannot release any additional details about the incident at the request of the State Bureau of Investigation. The investigation is ongoing.