Quartez Sager, a 20-year-old Black male from Birmingham, Alabama, died on June 22, 2013, after he was found shot shortly before 3 a.m. near 17th Street Southwest and Alemeda Avenue. Police were called to that corner in the dark early-morning hours and found him lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. He was rushed to UAB Hospital, but he did not survive. In the days that followed, the public record around his death stayed painfully spare, the kind of silence that often settles over street-co
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