MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — When Darryle Brown woke up in the dark hours of an early December morning, he heard an explosion.

Suddenly, Brown was on fire and trapped underneath an eight-inch-thick concrete slab – the floor of his fiancée’s two-story apartment unit in Birmingham, according to his attorney, Glenda Cochran.

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