On a Tuesday afternoon in Birmingham, Alabama, the life of 29-year-old Antoine 'Twin' Collier, a Black/African American male, was violently cut short. On October 17, 2017, Collier was with his girlfriend, about to enter a gas station convenience store, when two unidentified men unleashed a barrage of over 40 bullets in their direction. Collier was struck multiple times and died on the sidewalk.
His girlfriend was physically unharmed, but a woman in her 50s who was an innocent bystander was also hit by the gunfire and rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Authorities believed Collier was the intended target of the brazen daylight attack. In the six months leading up to his death, he had survived being shot on ten separate occasions. Law enforcement sources indicated that in at least two of those prior shootings, Collier was the aggressor, accused of robbing individuals involved in the drug trade. It was a dangerous lifestyle that seemed to have finally caught up with him in the most brutal way.
Despite the public nature of the execution-style slaying and the numerous previous attempts on his life, information regarding any arrests or the identification of the two gunmen has not been made public. Collier's death left his family to mourn a man who had been recently released from prison and had expressed a desire to turn his life around, even speaking to young men about the perils of violence. The investigation into who was responsible for the fatal shooting that ended Antoine Collier's troubled life remains unresolved in the public domain.
