On June 12, 2007, Nelson Rice, a 27-year-old male, was killed in Birmingham, Alabama, in a shooting that unfolded in the parking lot of the Uptown Apartments at 1517 19th Street North in the city’s Druid Hills area. The accounts that remain online paint the scene in stark, sudden strokes: an argument broke out, Rice was shot in the back, and he was left in the parking lot, another life taken in a place that had already seen more than its share of violence. Publicly available summaries of the c
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