We will rise | Children and community leaders attend youth rally for change across Knoxville
For the third weekend straight, Felecia Outsey taught love to children in the community. She also organized a showcase so they could share their talents. Author: Grace King (10News) Updated: 10:29 PM EDT May 1, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. For the third weekend straight, community members led children in a rally for change in Danny Mayfield Park. They want to see a safer Knoxville for their children and for future generations.
Felecia Outsey believes they can help accomplish that by teaching love. In order for us to actually stop the cycle of violence, we must do our part in organizing, getting together and using the resources that we have, Outsey said. We are empowered to come out here and to teach love to children.
Columbus, Ohio officer who killed Ma’Khia Bryant was trained in military marksmanship
The Columbus, Ohio police officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant on Tuesday, Nicholas Reardon, is an active duty US Air National Guardsmen trained as an expert marksman, it was revealed Thursday.
Police quickly released body cam footage of the incident earlier this week which shows Reardon approaching an altercation between a group of young people in a driveway. Bryant, facing away from the officer, can be seen pushing another female to the ground before Reardon drew his weapon and repeatedly shouted “get down.” After Bryant, armed with knife, turned to fight another woman, Reardon fired four times into Bryant. She died shortly after.
U.S.|One High School, Five Students Fatally Shot
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Family and friends honored the lives of young people killed by gun violence in the Austin-East Magnet High School community in Knoxville, Tenn. Many wore shirts with a picture of Justin Taylor, 15, who died in January.Credit.Jessica Tezak for The New York Times
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One High School, Five Students Fatally Shot
Five students at a Knoxville, Tenn., high school have been killed in gun violence this year, plunging a community’s young people into a whirlwind of trauma.
Family and friends honored the lives of young people killed by gun violence in the Austin-East Magnet High School community in Knoxville, Tenn. Many wore shirts with a picture of Justin Taylor, 15, who died in January.Credit.Jessica Tezak for The New York Times
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Father of 10 shot dead in North Carolina
Forty-year-old Andrew Brown, father of 10, was fatally shot Wednesday morning by a Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputy in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Few details are known about the police shooting at this time, but the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office states the shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. while deputies were serving a search warrant.
According to a witness, Brown got into his car and started to drive away. Neighbors said the deputy fired his weapon between 6 and 8 times into Brown’s vehicle. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to take over the investigation.
Today, Austin-East students will return to school for the first full day of classes since the shooting. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 7:22 AM CDT April 22, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Knox County Schools Superintendent said he cannot shake feelings of helplessness after Monday s officer-involved shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School.
Classes at the high school were canceled in light of the shooting, which has now been extended out to Monday, April 19. Students are scheduled to move to online-only learning on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Today, Austin-East students will return to school for the first full day of classes since the shooting. Do what s best for you and your family, school board member Evetty Satterfield said. If you have kids that want to come and be with their teachers, we re here and our doors are open. If you have kids that need that time to process what happened and take care of themselves, do that as well.