Cyrus Montez Abrams Jr

In the late hours of a Tuesday night in Birmingham, Alabama, the life of 17-year-old Cyrus Montez Abrams Jr. was cut short by gunfire. On August 4, 2020, just after 11:00 p.m., the sound of multiple shots pierced the night in the 1000 block of 15th Way Southwest. Officers from the west precinct were on patrol in the area and heard the barrage of what was later identified as 20 rounds fired.

Upon their arrival at a courtyard of an apartment complex, they discovered a chaotic scene with two ...