Travars Montez Wages Jr. was a 21-year-old Black man from Birmingham whose final days began in the early morning darkness of January 30, 2020, outside the Wages Event Center at 2726 Pearson Avenue Southwest. Birmingham police were called there at about 2:41 a.m. and found him wounded by gunfire just after he had stepped outside. He was rushed to UAB Hospital, where the fight to save him stretched on for nearly two weeks before he died on February 12, turning what began as a shooting investigatio
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