Jurors see texts in woman’s Birmingham murder-for-hire trial: ‘We need the money. The work is done’

A flurry of text messages in the moments before and after Raven Swain was gunned down in an alleged murder-for-hire by her boyfriend were shown Thursday to jurors.

Demarcus Chandler, 27, is on trial for capital murder in the 2020 shooting death of the 24-year-old Swain.

Police contend Chandler, who has a lengthy criminal history and is locked up in state prison on parole violations from previous crimes, hired 28-year-old Solomon Minatee III for $8,000 to kill Swain…

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