In the quiet hours of a late December night in 2014, the life of Travis Bill Hayes, a 33-year-old Black or African American man, was tragically cut short in Birmingham, Alabama. On Sunday, December 28th, what should have been a festive time of year turned into a period of mourning. The specific circumstances surrounding his death were not immediately clear, leaving a community and a family grasping for answers in the sudden void left by his absence.
The initial investigation into Hayes's
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