Dexter Dewayne Speight

In the quiet darkness of a Monday night in Birmingham, Alabama, the life of Dexter Dewayne Speight, a 31-year-old Black/African American man, was tragically cut short. On July 27, 2020, at the Adona Briarcliff Apartments on Debar Street, a place he called home, Speight was met with sudden and fatal violence. He was in the parking lot of the complex when he was ambushed and shot. The initial call to authorities reported that someone had been shot, and when officers from the East Precinct arrived, ...

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