The reigning Miss Alabama for America Strong, Zoe Sozo Bethel, has died. She passed away at age 27. Bethel died February 25th, 2022, early Friday morning in Miami, Florida after falling from a third-floor window the previous week and sustaining “blunt force trauma,”, according to a statement from the Miami Police Department.”This was a tragic accident, and no foul play is suspected,” the department said in the statement. According to a social media post from Bethel’s family published on February 16th, 2022, Bethel “sustained severe damage to her brain/brainstem” and ended up in a coma as a result of the February 10th, 2022 accident.
