On a summer evening in Bessemer, Alabama, the life of Quintrius Lee Jackson, a 25-year-old Black / African American man from the nearby city of Brighton, was tragically cut short. On August 17, 2017, Jackson was fatally shot in the parking lot of a gas station, a place of constant comings and goings that became the backdrop for a sudden and irreversible act of violence. The incident left a community searching for answers and a family grappling with the sudden loss of a young man.
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