James Otis Holmes was a 21-year-old Black male from Birmingham, Alabama, whose life ended violently in the early hours of November 7, 2012. In Ensley, on the 4800 block of Terrace R, sanitation workers on their garbage route came upon his body in the yard behind a home. Police later said he had been shot in the head, and residents in the area reported hearing several gunshots hours before he was found. The scene carried the eerie stillness that often follows sudden violence, with detectives left
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