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| Birmingham, Alabama

Desmon Montez Ray, 28, from Birmingham, Alabama, on 4 April 2021

Victim Info

  • Desmon Montez Ray
  • Black/African American
  • 28
  • Male

Details

At approximately 10:50 p.m., Birmingham police received a call stating that two people were involved in a domestic disturbance inside a vehicle in North Birmingham. North Precinct officers found the vehicle in the 300 block of 9th Avenue West and pursued it until the driver hit a fence in the 200 block of 9th Avenue West stopping the vehicle. Desmon Montez Ray allegedly got out and confronted officers with a firearm. Police shot and killed Ray.

Additional Evidence

  • Desmon Montez Ray
  • 28
  • Male
  • African-American/Black
  • African-American/Black
  • Not imputed
  • 200 block 9th Avenue W
  • Birmingham
  • AL
  • 35204
  • Jefferson
  • 200 block 9th Avenue W Birmingham AL 35204 Jefferson
  • Birmingham Police Department
  • Pending investigation
  • https://fatalencounters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Desmon-Montez-Ray.jpg

Source

Source ID: 29973 - Fatal Encounters

Cross References

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BEACON Data

Mainchain details

The BEACON hash was timestamped at and successfully submitted to Mainchain. The BEACON Timestamp ID is 65045. Submitted in Mainchain Tx E87F85587F7C39C32E5B6D78043494CBB37ADF2A3887CB6250216ECF4CCE7191, at block height 139379

Transaction details

Tx E87F85587F7C39C32E5B6D78043494CBB37ADF2A3887CB6250216ECF4CCE7191
Sent from: und1hf4jjflctvxcfxh5mc47yqvugwcugm9xzevszk
Public Key Type: /cosmos.crypto.secp256k1.PubKey
Public Key: A675rrH9WWpxIibCwaEs18WyVdsrByOXRqVay8/b8hGh
Signature: ceKSscjGwdg/+oQsYv0PykD5U/rPWdAiKmvtxPbujaIt2TCyFQbrSSCXDvCtNxBD/wRVdZ84HLKQgGDWbMjW0w==
Raw Tx data:

Hash Comparison

Hash stored in database: 9ff5ad5ab1063717ff0a2944fbfb9bcdf3ac647c19738a37694dc4531084e9d6

Hash from Mainchain Tx: 9ff5ad5ab1063717ff0a2944fbfb9bcdf3ac647c19738a37694dc4531084e9d6

Dynamically generated hash: 3b8d594a8dbf6c308abb81b80a4d071f1b50964d3f53533d7d2feb3ca7c6e321

Hashes Match?
NO

How is the comparison calculated?

The hash stored in the database is used as the identifier for this report, and can be seen in the URL. The hash from the Mainchain Tx is the hash sent to and stored on Mainchain. Finally, the "generated hash" is generated each time this page is loaded, using the same data used for the hash submitted to Mainchain.

Raw data used to generate the hash, using the Node.js crypto.createHash('sha256') algorithm: