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Who killed Major Turner? Someone knows, and they need to do the right thing, city leaders say
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Two-year-old Major Turner died two weeks ago today, hours after he was gunned down in a close-knit, highly populated Birmingham housing community.
Since then, there have been prayers for the toddler and his family, tears for his life cut short and the family’s loss, outrage over the senseless, tragic killing. Candles have been lit, balloons released, and rewards offered.
What there hasn’t been, however, is someone, anyone, willing to step forward and give Birmingham police what they need to make an arrest in the case and bring some sort of closure, some sort of justice, to a grieving family, a grieving community.
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Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.