Lauren London recently opened up about how she’s coping after the death of rapper Nipsey Hussle almost three years ago. London and Hussle dated for five years, and had a son together, Kross Ermias, who’s now 5, in 2016. The California native was fatally shot in Los Angeles in March 2019. Since then London has […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. Wright’s family denounced the sentence as too lenient and accused the judge of giving more consideration to the white officer than […]
A Louisiana family demands answers about the death of their infant child. Almost a year later, the family of a 3-month old baby are still waiting for law enforcement officials to share if the child was fatally shot by an officer’s bullet. La’Mello Parker was shot after being kidnapped by his father. Parker’s father, Eric Derrell […]
DARBY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — One of Darby Township’s three volunteer fire companies has been suspended after another fire company allegedly heard them using racial slurs and disparaging Black residents in a virtual meeting. Briarcliffe Fire Company volunteers apparently failed to disconnect from the online meeting in January with local officials and the two other […]
22-year-old FAMU grad student has been shot at a Tallahassee apartment complex. MaKayla “MK” Bryant passed away after being hit by gunfire at the Providence Pointe Apartments late Wednesday afternoon. She was taken to a local hospital, where she died from her injury later that night. Details around the cause of her death have not […]
Funeral services were held Monday for nine children and three adults who died in a Philadelphia fire five days into the new year, the deadliest blaze in the city in more than a century. A funeral procession on the rain-soaked streets of the city Monday morning was followed by services at Temple University’s Liacouras Center, to […]
The family of 17-year-old Vincent Truitt has filed a $150 million lawsuit against Cobb County and the officer who fatally shot the teen. Truitt was fatally shot twice in the back on July 13, 2020, after a police chase, AJC reported. The bodycam footage showed the teen getting out of a stolen Nissan Altima with a gun […]
“Out of the blue, he said he got shot, he got hit,” Williams explained. “I don’t know where it came from. Nobody said anything. They didn’t say, ‘Police.’ They didn’t say, ‘Freeze.’ They didn’t say, ‘Drop your weapon.’ They just shot him. I could see the blood splattering across his shirt. He collapsed in the […]
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A former University of Alabama track star and Olympian was killed in a shootout with another man, authorities say. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Monday identified Emmit King and Willie Albert Wells as the two men who died after exchanging gunfire in Bessemer on Sunday, AL.com reported. King, 62, was a […]
Three unidentified Black Civil War soldiers from the U.S. Colored Troops have been properly honored last weekend 157 years after they were lined up and shot execution-style and left on the side of a road in Virginia. Howard Lambert, who heads the nonprofit organization Freedom Foundation, and in partnership with Civil War Trails and the […]