‘They deserve justice’: Families seek answers as Jefferson County ends 2020 with 74 unsolved murders
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
His mother, Nedra Smith, thinks about her first-born, just 15-years-old, every day and every night.
She thinks about how she was just beginning to know what it felt like to have a full-fledged teenager with his driver’s license just around the corner.
She thinks about him when his five younger siblings want to know why they can’t see him.
She thinks about how much help he was as the man of the family, and how that burden now rests on her 13-year-old.
“I don’t sleep because my mind is constantly racing, trying to put together the who and the why,’ Smith said. “I just don’t get what was so bad, so horrible for you to still have life and my child doesn’t. It’s like one of those movies where you are left hanging. I don’t have an ending.”
Deadly gun violence hits Birmingham family for 2nd time in just over a year
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Corey Duskin was shot to death Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, while in a vehicle in front of his grandmother s west Birmingham home. (Contributed )
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Birmingham police identified the city’s 117th homicide victim as Corey Duskin. He was 29.
Officers responded at 6:20 p.m. Saturday to 5909 Ellington Street on a report of a person shot. Sgt. Rod Mauldin said officers arrived to find a wounded Duskin in the driver’s seat of a vehicle.
He was taken to UAB Hospital’s Trauma Center by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
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