Mario T. Sparks, a 30-year-old Black man from the Birmingham area, died on November 30, 2015, after gunfire shattered an otherwise ordinary night on Wintergreen Avenue. The first urgent call reached police at about 9:44 p.m., sending them to the 5400 block, where they arrived to find him already dead, struck by an unknown number of gunshot wounds. The scene sat in the Brownville community, and investigators moved through it under the hard glow of emergency lights, gathering evidence and trying t
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