On August 23, 2007, Donnie Ashford, a 55-year-old man from Birmingham, Alabama, reached the end of an ordinary day in the Ensley area in a way no one would have expected. At the intersection of Avenue Z and 29th Street in Ensley, he was shot while outside his flatbed tow truck. The scene was stark and public—steel, streetlights, and pavement—an everyday corner suddenly turned into a crime scene as officers and investigators began piecing together what happened around the truck and the roadwa
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