As Chauvin Verdict Was Read, Police Killed Black Ohio Teen MaâKhia Bryant
Black Lives Matter activists form a line across from a line of police to protest the police shooting of Ma Khia Bryant on April 20, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio.
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911 operators received a call at 4:35 pm, reported
The Columbus Dispatch. Police responded, and 10 minutes after that call was made, police shot Bryant four times. She was pronounced dead at 5:21 pm.
Hazel Bryant, MaâKhia Bryantâs aunt, spoke with a number of news outlets about the killing of her niece. She said MaâKhia had made the 911 call and grabbed a knife in self defense after an altercation with someone else at her home left her feeling unsafe.
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The Franklin County Sheriff s Office says the woman killed in a shooting Saturday night on Chatterton Road was 39-year-old Latoya Carpenter.
Carpenter was driving in a shopping center, when someone opened fire on a nearby vigil. She was killed, while five others were injured, including a 12-year-old child.
Around 7 p.m. Saturday, one family was grieving, but 30 minutes later, another family would join them.
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For the families who are trying to heal after losing someone to violence, seeing more reports of violence almost every morning, opens past wounds.
That’s how Malissa Thomas-St. Clair describes it. She said she understands the pain of losing someone to violence, first hand.
“I don’t know if you remember me,” he wrote to her, “ … but out of the respect I have for you and how highly you used to speak of your son in class and brag about him I just wanted you to know you guys are in my prayers and I wanted to know if there’s anything I can do to raise money or anything that will help.”
The maturity and empathy shown by a then-teenager was not lost on Thomas-St. Clair, and a friendship with Goodson soon formed.
“Casey was my refuel at a time I wanted to throw in the towel. He was my reason to keep pouring my soul into my current students, she said in a statement. He became my constant motivation when the frustrations would outweigh the purpose. Casey did not know each time he randomly checked on me, he was the lighter that would relight my candle of passion when the career barriers seemed to be too much.”