On the night of May 9, 2020, Birmingham police rushed to a home on Gulfport Street in the city’s Wylam community after a report that someone had been shot. Inside the residence at 1221 Gulfport Street, officers found Roderick Smith, 32, a Black/African American man, suffering from a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue. In the chaos, Smith’s 7-year-old son was also hurt, and the child ran to a neighbor’s home for help as adults tried to make sens
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