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On April 4, 1989, 22-year-old Charles Lambert "Chip" Flynn was killed in Brevard County, Florida. Flynn died from a gunshot wound. His ex-girlfriend Kim Hallock claims that an African-American man named Crosley Alexander Green was responsible for Flynn's death. Green was found guilty of Flynn's murder and placed on death row. He was eventually ...
Harry Tyson Moore (November 16, 1905 – December 25, 1951) was an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the civil rights movement, founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida, and president of the state chapter of the NAACP.
At his trial for Miller's murder, Barnes waived his right to a jury and represented himself. In 2006, he pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of Miller along with burglary, two counts of sexual battery with a weapon and arson. On December 13, 2007, Brevard County circuit court judge Lisa Davidson sentenced Barnes to death. [1] [10]
Austin Van "Chick" Catterton Sr. (January 26, 1913 – October 4, 1993) was a one-term mayor of Melbourne, Florida from 1953 to 1954. He was a broadcaster and musician. He was born in Walterboro, South Carolina on January 26, 1913, the son of G. M. Catterton and Lattie Catterton.
The second investigation was a joint investigation by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office and Brevard County State Attorney's Office in 1978. [10] The third investigation took place in 1991 by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). In 2004, a fourth investigation was commenced by the Florida Attorney General's Office of Civil Rights ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.. The total amounts to 106 people. Of the 106 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 62 have been executed by lethal injection.
On November 23, 2012, Jordan Davis, a black American 17-year-old boy, was murdered at a Gate Petroleum gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, by Michael David Dunn, a white 45-year-old software developer, following an argument over loud music played by Davis and his three friends, in what was believed to be a racially motivated shooting.
The Central Brevard Library in Cocoa, FL has the largest collection, staffed full-time and employing a certified genealogist. It began in 1989 and contains genealogical records, early Brevard County Courthouse records, and the entirety of a collection of documents originally held by Eastern Florida State College (formerly Brevard Community ...