Rickey Jones, a 42-year-old Black male from Birmingham, died on April 5, 2014, after a shooting that local and later memorial-style reporting tied to an argument over laundry. The fragments of reporting that remain online paint the scene as something painfully ordinary turning fatal: a dispute flared, gunfire followed, and Jones was left with wounds that proved deadly after he was taken for medical treatment. His death was one of the homicides recorded in Birmingham during 2014, and the brief ob
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