Cornelius Hudson was 21 when he was killed on July 4, 2007, on the 8600 block of 2nd Avenue North in Birmingham. Funeral services were held July 13 at Greater New Heights Baptist Church with burial at Zion Memorial Garden Cemetery.

Patrick Scott Higgins was identified as the defendant in the case and charged with capital murder. Higgins is reported to have died in 2009 at age 26.

The record mixes brief funeral notices with criminal-case details: a planned street-level drug sale that turned deadly, an arrest and prosecution that resulted in a manslaughter conviction rather than the original capital murder charge. Does anyone have memories of Hudson, the neighborhood, or information about what happened that afternoon?