Sidney Austin Harmon

Sidney Austin Harmon, a 27-year-old White man from Valley, Alabama, died on July 20, 2019, after an early-morning confrontation outside a local bar and grill turned fatal. In the hours when most of Lee County was still asleep, the night’s noise spilled into the open air around the Circle W Bar and Grill on Lee Road 379, where what was described as a fight escalated into violence and left Harmon mortally wounded.

As deputies and first responders converged on the scene, the emergency was ...