The gunfire erupted about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at Glen Oaks Park, also known as Homer E. Hayes Soccer Complex. The small park in the 200 block of Glen Crest Drive in the Glen Oaks neighborhood.
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Our crimes, our tragedies, our silence; make me stop writing about them
Updated 9:55 AM;
Today 7:54 AM
A woman was killed and five others injured - ages 21, 17, 16, 15, and 5, when gunfire erupted inside Birmingham s Patton Park on East Sunday night. City and community leaders say it must stop.
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This is an opinion column.
I’ve written this column too many times. I’m incensed because I’ll probably have to write it again.
I’ll keep writing it, too, until Black men and women and children peaceful lawful citizens may safely fellowship in our parks on a beautiful spring Easter Sunday afternoon, can grill for goodness sakes, without having to scurry from gunfire, without having to use their bodies to shield children.
Rickey Smiley offers reward in Birmingham park shooting that killed woman, injured 5: ‘I’m really angry’
Updated 1:30 PM;
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On Sunday morning, Areyelle Yarbough stood before a virtual congregation and sang before her father took to the pulpit for Easter service.
Hours later, the 32-year-old Alabama A&M University graduate, master’s degree student and manager in the Jefferson County Department of Revenue, lay on the pavement in Birmingham’s Patton Park, an innocent bystander unresponsive from an apparent gunshot wound to the head.
Yarbrough was caught in crossfire as hundreds, if not more than a thousand, packed the park to celebrate the holiday.