Antonio Martez Smith, a 30-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, died on January 20, 2010, at UAB Hospital, bringing to an end a month-long fight that began with a violent robbery at his own home. The shooting that ultimately took his life had happened weeks earlier, on December 20, 2009, at a residence on 18th Place Southwest in Southwest Birmingham—a place that should have been safe, turned suddenly into a crime scene.
In the days after the robbery, Smith lingered in critical
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