Little League Football Coach Killed
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By WVTM Archives
Published: September 5, 2008
Birmingham’s 55th homicide victim was killed before 9 Thursday night in the 4100 block of 39th Avenue. In Bessemer, he’s remembered as a hero.
Demetrius Reigns coached the McAdory Yellow Jackets little league football team. They are a group of five and six-year olds with a lot of heart in the Bessemer community.
‘The First 48’ crews, along with Birmingham police, documented Reigns’ murder.
“He was all about family—if it was his own family or his football family, he was building a house in the community he really just loved the kids,“ said Reigns’ friend, Jason Hudgins.
Dozens of families prayed and paid respects to the man who spent several days a week coaching football and giving back to the community. As police search for the coach’s killer, Yellow Jacket parents are figuring out a way to explain death to their five-year-olds.
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Posted by ( NaNa 2 u00 ) on September 09, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Killing,Killing,Killing,whe is it gonna stop. A Husband, Father,Son,Uncle,Friend dead for no reason. We the “People” are gonna have to start doing something watch out for your neighbor’s, be be noisy do not care what people think I watch everything that goes on around where I live and if something does not look right I call the police, or ask them what they want and doing because no one is at home.. May God be with his Family and Friend’s.
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