Alabama football player killed at sister’s ‘Sweet 16’
for his little sister in Alabama on Saturday night.
The tragic high-school senior was slain at the celebration for his sibling Alexis, his stricken grandmother, Annette Allen, His sister updated her Facebook profile picture Sunday morning to a photo of her kissing her brother’s cheek. Dowdell, who had a “million-dollar smile,” was getting ready to graduate before heading off to Jacksonville State on a football scholarship, his grandma said.
”It’s a small town. We don’t have too many crimes like this at all. So it’s shocking, very shocking,” Taylor said.The other identified slain victim, Smith, was the manager of the school’s basketball and track and field teams and played on the school’s volleyball and softball teams until her junior year, when she suffered an ACL tear.
Dadeville Mayor Frank Goodman said a council member called him about a half-hour after the shooting to tell him what happened. The mayor said he went to the local hospital.
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