On the night of November 6, 2022, a young Black/African American man named Kendall Jarod Thornton Jr., 21, was driving his blue Kia Forte along Pinson Valley Parkway near Cleage Drive in Birmingham, Alabama. It was approximately 10:30 p.m. and he was only five minutes away from his father's house. Suddenly, the night was shattered by the sound of gunfire as an unknown assailant or assailants opened fire on his vehicle.
Struck by the gunfire, Thornton lost control of his car, which veered
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