In the summer of 2015, the city of Birmingham, Alabama, was experiencing a significant rise in violence. On the first day of July, this wave of crime tragically touched the life of Christopher Charles Cooley. A 41-year-old Black or African American man, Cooley was fatally shot in the College Hills neighborhood, a community that was unaccustomed to such violent acts. His death marked one of the 100 homicides that would plague the city by the end of the year, a stark increase from the 62 recorded
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