Protesters marched in Alabama to demand answers after police confessed that they shot and killed the wrong man after a mall shooting near Birmingham on Thanksgiving Day.
Authorities shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., who they initially maintained was the shooter, before admitting Friday that he was not the gunman who perpetrated the attack. They said they believe the gunman is still at large.
A gunman entered Riverchase Galleria near Birmingham on Thursday night and shot an 18-year-old man and 12-year-old girl, according to Hoover Police Capt. Gregg Rector. Both were taken to the hospital, and the man remains in serious condition.
“New evidence now suggests that while Mr. Bradford may have been involved in some aspect of the altercation, he likely did not fire the rounds that injured the 18-year-old victim,” reads an Alabama Police Department statement regarding the incident and the dead man, BBC News reported Sunday.
Protesters marched through the mall Friday evening and held a moment of silence for Bradford. Another large group of protesters, reportedly around 200, marched Saturday to demand police explain what had occurred.
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“Where is the bodycam footage—why we ain’t seen it yet?” one protester said to CBS News.
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Bradford had trained with the military but was discharged from the Army in August before completing his training, according to reports.
His mother, April Pipkins, told The New York Times on Saturday that Bradford was licensed to carry a gun and might have been trying to protect shoppers from the gunman during the Thanksgiving attack.
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“He was trying to be somebody who helped save people, yet he was killed,” said Pipkins’ lawyer, Benjamin Crump, BBC reported.
Crump is a national civil rights attorney who represented Trayvon Martin‘s family after the 17-year-old’s shooting death in 2012.
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