In the late hours of a Monday in Alexander City, Alabama, the sense of evening quiet was shattered by a disturbance that would leave a family and community reeling. On December 1, 2020, 18-year-old Cody Lane Motes, a young man at the cusp of adulthood, was tragically killed. He was not the only victim of the violence that erupted that night; his 40-year-old mother, Stephanie Nichole Dennis Motes, was also found deceased. Both had been fatally shot, their lives cut short in an act of violence tha
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