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N.C. community on edge after officer fatally shoots man during chase
Source: CBS/AP
CBS/AP March 1, 2016, 3:55 PM
N.C. community on edge after officer fatally shoots man during chase
Last Updated Mar 1, 2016 4:20 PM EST
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The neighborhood where an officer fatally shot a black man during a foot chase is on edge Tuesday, awaiting answers in one of the latest police shootings in a predominantly African-American community.
Eyewitnesses have offered descriptions of what happened Monday, including a woman who said a black man was shot in the back by a white police officer, but authorities have so far been tightlipped.
Raleigh police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown said an officer was pursuing a man who was wanted on a felony drug charge when the officer opened fire. The chief said a gun was found near the suspect's body, but she did not say whether it was his.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is confirming the identity of the black man who was fatally shot.
The agency says 24-year-old Akiel Denkins, of Raleigh, was killed and that agents have talked to his mother, Rolonda Byrd. She had earlier complained that authorities had not told her that her son had been killed and that they wouldn't let her see his body.
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N.C. community on edge after officer fatally shoots man during chase
Last Updated Mar 1, 2016 4:20 PM EST
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The neighborhood where an officer fatally shot a black man during a foot chase is on edge Tuesday, awaiting answers in one of the latest police shootings in a predominantly African-American community.
Eyewitnesses have offered descriptions of what happened Monday, including a woman who said a black man was shot in the back by a white police officer, but authorities have so far been tightlipped.
Raleigh police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown said an officer was pursuing a man who was wanted on a felony drug charge when the officer opened fire. The chief said a gun was found near the suspect's body, but she did not say whether it was his.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is confirming the identity of the black man who was fatally shot.
The agency says 24-year-old Akiel Denkins, of Raleigh, was killed and that agents have talked to his mother, Rolonda Byrd. She had earlier complained that authorities had not told her that her son had been killed and that they wouldn't let her see his body.
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Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-community-on-edge-after-officer-fatally-shoots-man-during-chase-akiel-denkins/