Jamal Marcel Butler, an 18-year-old African American male from Opelika, Alabama, died on October 18, 2011, after a shooting that unfolded along the 500 block of W. E. Morton Avenue. Late that Tuesday afternoon, officers with the Opelika Police Department were sent to the area on a report of a gunshot victim. Behind an apartment complex, they found Butler suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper torso, the kind that leave little room for time or luck. He was rushed to East Alabama Medical Cente
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