Roderick Bowers

Who is responsible for Roderick's murder?
Roderick Bowers, a 34-year-old Black man, was killed just after midnight on December 14, 2009, in Birmingham’s Ensley neighborhood, in a quiet house on Avenue H that turned chaotic in a matter of minutes. Police said he was found inside his home at 1304 Avenue H, struck by gunfire to the head and chest, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, becoming the city’s 61st homicide of that year.

Investigators later described a brief, chilling sequence: two men walked up to Bowers’s resi ...