On Friday, July 24, 2015, the day ended violently for Derrick Anthony Harris, a 44-year-old Black man. In the Prichard area near the intersection of Allenby Street and Birmingham Street, he was killed in a shooting that left his name added to a growing roll of lives lost in Mobile County’s patchwork of neighborhoods, where city lines and community names blur and tragedy travels fast.
In the immediate aftermath, the circumstances were treated as a homicide, with investigators focusing on
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