LaWanda Russell, a 17-year-old Black female from Birmingham, was killed on August 11, 2008, in a burst of gunfire that shattered an ordinary summer night in the city’s West End area. She had just registered to become an 11th-grader at Wenonah High School, and the life described by family and friends in the days after her death was full of church, school, laughter, and the easy warmth of someone people remembered as happy and down-to-earth. She was a member of Rising Star AME Zion Church in Pow
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