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The Birmingham community is still in shock over the violence we’ve seen this past week. Two teenagers died from shootings and both attended Jackson-Olin High School.
Two students – 17-year-old Caleb Whitt and 16-year-old Jada White – were shot to death in separate incidents just days apart. “Sick to my stomach,” is the way Jackson-Olin High School Principal Nichole Davis-Williams described some of her emotions after learning of the slayings of two of her students.
The killings are devastating to those who knew and loved the victims, the chief said, but many of them happened because of the victims’ actions and could have been prevented. “So, we need to have a really candid conversation about the things that are transpiring in our city as it relates to homicides and violence,’’ Thurmond said.