Earnest Tremaine Porter-Smith, 35, a Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, was found dying on a sidewalk in east Birmingham on the evening of August 25, 2021. Police were dispatched to the 600 block of 2nd Avenue South, where he was discovered lying unresponsive outdoors with multiple stab wounds. The injuries were severe enough that he was pronounced dead at the scene, turning an ordinary summer evening into the city’s next homicide investigation.
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