Nicholas Smith, a 23-year-old Black man, was shot on the night of Friday, May 1, 2015, in Birmingham, Alabama, in a neighborhood officers identified around the intersection of 44th Street and 12th Court North. The first call pulled police to a home where the scene felt incomplete—blood on the sidewalk, the sharp evidence of violence, but no victim in sight. Investigators soon learned Smith wasn’t waiting for an ambulance or a patrol car; he was already being rushed toward help, driven by a r
...Read More
Account
