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Robert Benson

Case from Birmingham, AL dated Nov 18, 2021

Victim Details

Robert Benson

Male

Black / African American

Birmingham

AL

2021-11-18

62

Robert

Benson

06/29/2026

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Robert Benson was a 62-year-old African American man who died on November 18, 2021, in Birmingham, Alabama, after a violent moment on a city sidewalk turned irreversible. In the Graymont area, along the 100 block of 3rd Avenue West, he was walking when a vehicle hit him and kept going, leaving him behind in the roadway’s harsh quiet as the driver vanished into the night.

The crash was treated as more than a tragic accident: the driver’s decision to flee became part of the wound, turn ...
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