Lee Earl Ross, a 71-year-old man, spent many weekends the same way—out back at a family home on the 1700 block of 48th Street in Birmingham’s Ensley area, talking late into the night, cooking, and keeping an easy watch over the children who moved in and out of the yard. People close to him described him as steady and dependable, still working part time and helping raise a young relative with his longtime partner, the kind of presence a family quietly leans on until he’s suddenly gone.
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