Lovell Amison III

In the Kingston neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, a young man's life was cut short on the morning of May 6, 2019. Lovell Amison III, a 23-year-old Black / African American male, was fatally shot in the 4500 block of 9th Avenue North within the Morton Simpson Village public housing community. The Birmingham Police Department's ShotSpotter system detected gunfire in the area, leading officers to the scene shortly after 9:00 a.m.

Upon their arrival, officers discovered Amison suffering fr ...