On October 26, 2016, at approximately 1:00 a.m., 39-year-old Corey Dekel Merrida was fatally shot in the 1800 block of Centerbrook Lane in Center Point, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. Merrida had been staying at a friend's apartment and had stepped outside to retrieve an item from a vehicle. During this time, two armed men and a woman forced their way into the apartment, seeking the resident. Upon Merrida's return through the back door, he was confronted and shot multiple times. He was pronoun
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