On August 30, 2014, McDaniel Watson, a 50-year-old African American man, died after a late-night walk in George Ward Park in Birmingham, Alabama turned into a robbery attempt and a killing. According to police accounts reported at the time, he was in the park with his wife around 10 p.m. when a man they did not know approached and demanded his wallet; within seconds, a shot rang out and struck Watson in the head. The gunman ran from the park on foot, leaving Watson gravely wounded as his wife tr
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