Family and friends gathered Wednesday evening in a west Birmingham park to a remember a 22-year-old man who was found shot to death there just three days ago. Robert Alexander Brown, known affectionately by many of his friends as Rico, was discovered dead about 10 a.m. Sunday in Dolomite-Westfield Park.
Family and friends gathered Wednesday evening in a west Birmingham park to a remember a 22-year-old man who was found shot to death there just three days ago.was discovered dead about 10 a.m. Sunday in Dolomite-Westfield Park.“Everybody knows how I felt about my son,’’ his mother, Alexandria Brown, told the crowd gathered at the park for the candlelight vigil.”
“We want peace. Our message from the very beginning is we don’t want any retaliation,’’ he said. “We want the courts to do what the courts do.” Birmingham police were dispatched just after 10 a.m. Sunday to the park on Tin Mill Road on a report of a person shot. “We didn’t think he was going to be able to talk until he was 3. He would just smile,’’ she said. “And the first words he told everybody was ‘shut up.’’'Bell described him as silly, and said he was always smiling.Robert Alexander Brown, 22, was found shot to death in his vehicle Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Dolomite Westfield Park. On Aug. 16, family and friends held a balloon release in his memory.
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