Police respond to alarm, find woman dead In the early morning hours of November 21, 2011, a tragedy unfolded in Fairfield, Alabama, that would leave a community shaken and a family searching for answers. Sherri Terese Smith, a 32-year-old African-American woman, was found brutally murdered inside her residence on Earlwood Road in the Fair Oaks neighborhood. The discovery was made after police responded to a burglar alarm that went off at her home around 4:00 a.m. Upon their arrival, officers found the front door slightly ajar.
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