Lexi Dowdell was the victim celebrating her sixteenth birthday party, says DA. Her cake was never cut, candles never lit. She lost her brother, “Phil” Dowdell, in the mass shooting. HER STORY
Saturday night in Dadeville, about an hour’s drive northeast of Montgomery, began as it should have, with “everybody dancing, vibing to the music,” Alexis Dowdell said. Keenan Cooper, the DJ at the party, told WBMA-TV the event was stopped briefly when partygoers heard someone had a gun. He said people with weapons were asked to leave, but no one did.Dowdell said she dove to the floor near the DJ as the dozens of revelers ran.
Once outside, she found her mother and stepfather. “Where are my cousins, where are my friends? Where is my brother?” Dowdell pleaded. “When they came in, I said ‘Can you check on my brother?’” Alexis Dowdell recalled. “And he checked my brother’s pulse and I was like, ‘Is he alive or is he dead?’ And the people didn’t want to tell me, so they just gave me, like, a certain look. And I just knew he was just gone.”
In the aftermath of the shootings, friends and family remembered details large and small about the dead. Much of the early public attention focused on Phil Dowdell, because he was a star football player in a state where high school football rules Friday nights in the fall.
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