In the quiet community of Brighton, Alabama, just outside of Bessemer, 68-year-old Sylvester Allen, a Black male, was tragically killed on December 26, 2018. The day after Christmas began like any other, but a neighbor would later recall hearing about four gunshots in the morning, a chilling premonition of the violence that had shattered the neighborhood's peace.
Allen had returned to his home to a scene of every homeowner's nightmare: an intruder, or possibly multiple, had broken in. A v
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