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NYC Teen Dies From Asthma Attack After Running From Racist Crew With Gun
Witnesses say that Dayshen McKenzie, a black teen from Staten Island, N.Y., was running from a group of mostly white people, who were shouting racial slurs and waving a gun, when he collapsed and died May 27 from an apparent asthma attack. “To me it’s murder,” Diane Fatigati, an ex-New York City police officer and…
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Watch: Victim’s Father Lunges at Ohio Serial Killer Who Murdered His Daughter
The Ohio serial killer had already been sentenced to death, but that didn’t stop the father of one of his victims from diving over a table to try to hurt the man who killed his daughter. “How are you doing, your honor? My name is Van Terry, father of Shirellda Terry,” he said from a…
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Miss. Woman’s Stillborn Daughter’s Remains Go Missing From Graveyard
Nine years ago, Amanda Reed gave birth to a stillborn child. She named her daughter Heaven Sent Reed before burying her in a Tunica County, Miss., graveyard. For nine years, Reed has visited the site where her daughter is buried; sometimes she cleans the site, and other times she brings flowers. Sometimes she does both.…
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Detroit Mom Inherits Thousands of Dollars, Has Account Frozen After Being Suspected of Fraud
A Detroit mother of four is furious that she has not been able to touch a single penny in her bank account because the account has been frozen. According to WJBK, Christina Anderson has had to put her son’s graduation party on hold, and she is now unsure how long the lights in her home…
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Boston High School Senior Spent 4 Months Drawing Photos of Entire Senior Class as a Surprise
Boston Latin School senior Phillip Sossou left an amazing parting gift for his entire senior class after spending the last four months sketching portraits of his fellow would-be graduates in order to display them at the school as a final surprise, the Boston Globe reports. Early last Friday morning, the final day of classes for…
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Body of Missing Detroit 13-Year-Old Deontae Mitchell Found in Field on City’s East Side
The family of 13-year-old Deontae Mitchell has positively identified his body after it was found Thursday morning in a field on the east side of Detroit, Click on Detroit reports. Deontae was reported missing after he was abducted by a man Tuesday night. An Amber Alert was issued for the 13-year-old after a cousin told…
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Mich. High School Responds to ‘Deplorable’ Video of Students’ Racist Rant
A Michigan community is outraged after high school students were seen in video saying horrific, racist things, prompting a widespread response at their school. In an email sent to students, parents and teachers Wednesday, Grosse Pointe South High School Principal Moussa Hamka described the video, blasting it as “deplorable” and a clear violation of the…
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UCLA Gunman Identified as Former Doctoral Student Who Accused Victim of Stealing His Computer Code
Authorities have identified the UCLA gunman in the murder-suicide on campus Wednesday as Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student who accused his victim of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sarkar reportedly killed himself after fatally shooting 39-year-old UCLA professor William Klug in Engineering Building 4. Klug,…
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Report: Prince Died From Opioid Overdose
Autopsy reports show that Prince died from an opioid overdose, according to a law-enforcement official who spoke with the Associated Press. Since news of Prince’s death surfaced, so have rumors claiming that the 57-year-old singer suffered from an addiction to pain medication. According to the official, who is reported to be close to the investigation…
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White Ill. Family Reportedly Almost Drowns Black Teen During Racial-Slur-Laced Beating
An Illinois family is facing multiple charges after, police say, they beat up a black teenager while shouting racial slurs at a campground in Canton, WLS reports. Carrie Weller, 42, and her two sons—21-year-old Corry Weller and 19-year-old Shane Weller—are facing charges of battery, mob action and a hate crime for the late-Sunday-afternoon beating of the…