On the night of September 22, 2021, 21-year-old male Ahmad Rash Cockrell of Bessemer was caught in a burst of gunfire in Birmingham’s Kingston area, in the 900 block of 44th Place North at the Morton Simpson Homes public housing community. Just after 9:30 p.m., a ShotSpotter alert registered multiple rounds, and almost at the same moment police received calls that two men had been shot. When officers arrived, they found Cockrell and another man wounded. Cockrell was discovered unresponsive out
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