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Lawrence Thomas

Case from Birmingham, AL dated Mar 19, 2016

Victim Details

Lawrence Thomas

Male

Black / African American

Birmingham

AL

2016-03-19

23

Lawrence

Thomas

Substantiated

07/12/2026

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Lawrence Thomas, 23, was a man from Birmingham, Alabama, whose last night unfolded on Saturday, March 19, 2016, along a stretch of 3rd Avenue South that was still busy close to 10 p.m. When shots started flying, it wasn’t a distant echo or a single crack that sent people looking over their shoulders—it was a car-to-car exchange that turned the roadway into a moving firefight, the kind that leaves little time for anyone nearby to understand what’s happening until it’s already over.
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