Antonio Mathews, a 33-year-old Black male from Birmingham, was killed on September 12, 2015, after gunfire erupted near 119 Taft Court Way in the Loveman Village housing community. What can be pieced together from public reports is stark and unsettling: sometime around 1 p.m., shots were fired in the area, and Mathews was wounded in what was described as a gunfight. Instead of police finding him at the scene, a family member rushed him to UAB Hospital, where he later died from his injuries. By t
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