John Wilson, a 55-year-old man, was killed on April 19, 2008, in Birmingham, Alabama, in the Wylam area. By the time help arrived, he was already down in a driveway along the 4900 block of 7th Avenue, the quiet kind of residential stretch where a sudden burst of gunfire feels unreal until it isn’t. He was found shot, and the scene quickly became another entry in a year that Birmingham was struggling to contain.
Investigators did not have to look far for the person they believed was res
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