Vincent Lewis, a 42-year-old Black man, was killed on September 20, 2008, inside his home on South Park Terrace in Birmingham’s Five Points West area. The killing unfolded in a setting that already sounded tense and fearful: according to the available online accounts, Lewis’s wife told her 26-year-old son that Lewis had threatened her with a knife, and the confrontation turned deadly inside the house. In the broader record of Birmingham’s 2008 homicide crisis, his death was listed among th
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