Aldorthia Burrell, 82, a Black woman, was sitting on the enclosed front porch of her home on Balsam Avenue SW in Birmingham on the evening of September 3, 2025, when gunfire from a nearby altercation sent a stray round into her doorway. Officers arrived just before 8 p.m. and found her between the front door and the porch; she was rushed by Birmingham Fire and Rescue to UAB Hospital, where she was pronounced dead that night. Investigators said the shot that killed her came from an argument about
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