Deanthony Amari Cooper-Cain

In the fading daylight of a Sunday evening in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 24, 2019, a burst of gunfire shattered the quiet, forever altering the lives of two families. Inside a vehicle driving through the western part of the city, 23-year-old Deanthony Amari Cooper-Cain was struck by the hail of bullets. The sudden violence of the attack left him with fatal injuries, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. A second male occupant of the vehicle was also wounded in the shooting and was trans ...