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Killing of Tyre Nichols. On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him.
Protests over the killing of Tyre Nichols (/ ˈtaɪ.ri ˈnɪk.əlz / TY-ree) began on January 27, 2023, following the release of police body camera and surveillance footage showing five Black officers from the Memphis Police Department beating Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. The police assault on Nichols occurred on January 7, 2023, and he ...
In Memphis, Black people are killed at a rate 1.5 times higher than their white counterparts, according to data from Mapping Police Violence. Everything we know about the Tyre Nichols case Tuesday ...
A TCU student who was killed early Friday in the West 7th district was approached on the street and shot three times by a man who ... he attended St. George’s Independent School in Memphis ...
The man who was arrested and faces a murder charge in the early Friday killing of a TCU student in Fort Worth’s West 7th entertainment district did not know the victim and could not offer a ...
Lawrenceville, Georgia: 0 1 1: A person was shot on a student parking lot roof at Georgia Gwinnett College, receiving an injury. The specific cause has not been identified. [230] May 14, 2014 Richmond, California: 0 1 1: A 14-year-old student was injured during a drive-by shooting in front of John F. Kennedy High School at 8:30 a.m.. He was ...
TCU fans bow their heads for a moment of silence for Wes Smith at the start of the team’s season opener on Saturday. Smith, a TCU student, was fatally shot in the West 7th district on Friday.
Killing of Leonard Cure. On October 16, 2023, Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old black American man, was fatally shot during a physical struggle by Sheriff's Deputy Buck Aldridge in Camden County, Georgia, after being pulled over for speeding. Cure had been exonerated in 2020 after being wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in Florida in 2003. [1][2]