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1 day ago · A triple homicide happened June 5 at a neighborhood Hispanic grocery store on Troy Highway. On June 7 a 12-year-old Montgomery girl died in a Birmingham hospital after being shot in her home the ...
3 days ago · Mayor Steven Reed addressed Sunday morning’s mass shooting in north Montgomery at a press conference moments after returning from the United States Conference of Mayors in Kansas City.
4 days ago · The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group.
2 days ago · When Montgomery said no, the online predator threatened to release a sexually explicit video of him. After continued pressure by the predator, Montgomery took his own life in 2022. Following an investigation which included assistance from the FBI, it was revealed that the individuals preying on the teen were overseas.
2 days ago · “There’s a thousand percent greater chance of victim being killed by their offender if they own a weapon. There was a study done from 2014 to 2019. 68 percent of all mass shootings the shooter had a history of being a domestic violence offender,” adds Clark-Montgomery. Montgomery says enforcing the ban looks different at the local level.
5 days ago · The Supreme Court has upheld a federal gun control law that’s intended to protect domestic violence victims. President Joe Biden praised the decision, saying that “no one who has been abused should have to worry about their abuser getting a gun,” The justices ruled 8-1 Friday in favor of a 1994 ban on firearms for people under restraining orders to stay away from their spouses or partners.
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1 day ago · Although they were protesting interstate bus segregation in peace, they were met with violence in Montgomery as a large, white mob attacked them for their activism. They caused an enormous, 2-hour long riot which resulted in 22 injuries, five of whom were hospitalized.
