Charles Benson, a 38-year-old man from Birmingham, Alabama, died on January 10, 2008, after he was found shot while lying on a sofa inside a garage behind a house on the 800 block of 5th Way in the Pratt City area.
The circumstances that surfaced afterward painted a small, tense scene with a big, ugly motive: investigators believed the killing grew out of a dispute over a $2,500 debt. In that telling, the argument didn’t just simmer in the background of the neighborhood—it turned int
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