CHICAGO The mother of an Illinois State University graduate student who vanished in August and was later found dead in a river has hired a prominent civil rights attorney to investigate the Black man’s death.
CHICAGO (AP) A civil rights attorney joined Jelani Day's mother Friday to demand the FBI take charge of an investigation into why the Illinois State University graduate student disappeared in August and was later found dead in a river.
A civil rights attorney joined Jelani Day's mother Friday to demand the FBI take charge of an investigation into why the Illinois State University graduate student disappeared in August and was later found dead in a river.
Ben Crump told a news conference at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago that the Justice Department must step in and investigate Day's death as urgently as it has probed cases of suspected foul play involving white victims, such as Gabby Petito.
The toxicology report from the body of deceased ISU student Jelani Day shows marijuana, caffeine, and nicotine use. Levels showed typical use and aren't toxicologically significant.
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