Bill Baxley

Barbetta Hunt was one of the regulars who was there that night.

Um, what was your nickname back then?

That's like in the world of nicknames.

That's the best nickname I've come across.

When she was in her early 20s, Mama Cat spent a lot of nights hanging out at T's Place.

Before 11 for women.

This is Velenique Sanders, nicknamed Queasy.

Anything got for $11, it was $5.

What do you remember about what he looked like?

Did you guys ever go out, or did he know that you had a crush on him?

That's it.

Taforest mostly grew up in Birmingham's Pratt City neighborhood, or Pratt for short.

While DeForest was growing up, most of his extended family also lived in or near Pratt, including his cousin, Antonio Green.

DeForest's mom Donna was 17 when she had him, and when DeForest was young, she was more like a sister to him than a mother.

Donna leaned on her parents and siblings to help take care of DeForest, and as DeForest got older, she leaned on him to help take care of his little brother.

Taforis' father, Ronald, was an alcoholic and would get violent when he drank.

which was every day.

This made home life extremely volatile for Taforist, his younger brother, little Ron, and especially his mother, Donna.

She eventually left Ronald when Taforist was a teenager and moved in with another man who had an apartment in the Tuxedo Projects in Birmingham's Inslee community, also known as the Brickyard.

Oh, it was called the Brickyard.