As a mother - especially a mother of boys - Pamela Clayton hears gunfire and she cringes. And she panics.
Then, she quickly picks up the phone and reaches out to her kids. "I text or call and say, 'Hey babe, I just heard shots out there. You OK?"
The 41-year-old Birmingham nurse did that Sunday night when shots rang out in the Marks Village public housing community in Gate City. But this time, instead of a reply, she got only silence at first. "Nobody ever responded,'' the
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