Just after midnight on September 4, 2014, gunfire shattered the quiet along the 1600 block of Jefferson Avenue in southwest Birmingham, where officers were sent to a report of someone shot outside an apartment. There, Marvin Waller, a 22-year-old Black man, was found wounded, the violence arriving so suddenly it seemed to come out of nowhere.
Investigators said the shot came from a passing SUV, striking him in the chest while he was outside. As the vehicle moved through the block, anothe
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