Nearly two years after the death of Shemethia Coteat Stanton, a 41-year-old mother who was killed in an ambush in Alabama, her family is trying to retrieve a wedding ring that belongs to their loved one.
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Valentine’s Day marked one year since a Hoover wife and mother was gunned down outside her apartment and police again are asking for information that could lead to justice in the case.
Shemethia Coteat Stanton, 41, was shot in an ambush on Feb. 14, 2020 outside her Hoover apartment. Police and fire medics responded shortly before 7 p.m. that Friday to The Park at Wellington and Wakefield apartments off Tyler Road.
Once on the scene, they found Coteat Stanton outside her car. She was pronounced dead on the scene at 7:05 p.m.
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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.”