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Charleston Shows Unity As Gunman Faces Nine Murder Counts
Parishioners worship at Emmanuel AME on Sunday. Pray for killer.
Thousands of people hold hands to form a human chain across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in a stunning show of solidarity with the Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 21, 2015.
Officer Daryle
Confederate Memorial In
Holloway,
Charleston Vandalized
Killed While
Graffiti that appeared on a Confederate memorial in Charleston, S.C., was covered up Sunday as the city contin- ues to mourn the victims of last week's shooting massacre at a historic black church.
The inscription on the base of the statue which honors the "Confederate Defenders of Charleston" who died at Fort Sumter — was covered in the red, spray-painted message, "Black Lives Matter."
" This is the problem," graffiti on another side of the memo- rial read. "#Racist."
Transporting
Suspect,
Travis Boys
Officer Daryle Holloway was killed while transporting sus- pect, Travis Boys.
The man arrested and being charged by New Orleans police of fatally shooting Officer Daryle Holloway while in- side the veteran officer's police SUV Saturday morning (June 20) has a history of escaping law enforcement, court records show.
Travis Boys, 33, pleaded guilty to separate escape and attempted escape charges out of Jefferson Parish in 2005 and in 2000, according to online court records. In September of 2004, he tried to escape from a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy, record show, for which he pleaded guilty in 2005 and received a sentence of two years hard labor.
In Saturday's shooting, Boys was arrested for aggravated as- sault and on his way to Central Lockup around 8 a.m. when he somehow managed to maneu- ver his hands -- which were handcuffed behind his back -- to his front "either over his shoulders or beneath his legs" and make his way through an opening in the cage inside Hol- loway's vehicle, said NOPD Su- perintendent Michael Harrison. He and Holloway fought, Harrison said, before Boys managed to fatally shoot the 22-year veteran officer and father. Boys then fled the area, police said, while Holloway -- having crashed his police SUV into a utility pole -- was rushed to an area hospital.
Authorities are still investi- gating the origin of the weapon used to kill Holloway, but Harrison said the officer's weapon was in its holster.
Boys was arrested Sunday After an intense 24-hour man- hunt.
But questions remain about where the gun he used to kill Officer Daryle Holloway, 45, came from and how he hid from a law enforcement search that included canine, SWAT and helicopter teams.
Travis Boys, 33, was still wearing his broken handcuffs when a rookie officer and his trainer spotted him trying to board a city bus Sunday morn- ing, said Police Superintend- ent Michael Harrison.
Statue that honors Confeder- ate defenders in Charleston was vandalized.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The people of Charleston built a memorial and had a vigil Fri- day to repudiate whatever a gunman would hope to accom- plish by killing nine black community leaders inside one of the nation's most important African-American churches.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said the state will "ab- solutely" want the death penalty for Dylann Storm Roof, who opened fire after sitting through a Wednesday night Bible study session in- side the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. A steady stream of people brought flowers and notes and shared somber thoughts at a growing memorial in front of the church, which President Barack Obama called "a sa- cred place in the history of Charleston and in the history of America."
Cornell William Brooks, National president of the NAACP, said Friday in Charleston, "This was an act of racial terrorism and must be treated as such."
On Sunday, Emmanuel AME held its first service since the massacre, an emotional gath- ering celebrating the lives of those slain.
Several hundred congre- gants, some tearful, packed the Emanuel African American Episcopal Church for a service led by visiting clergy because the congregation's pastor was among those killed by a sus- pected young white suprema- cist.
The service offered still-
Suspect Dylann Roof, seen here in a photo taken from Lastrhodesian.com, is accused of shooting dead nine people at the Emanuel African American Episcopal Church in Charleston
grieving Charleston -- in an- other era, the American capi- tal of the transatlantic slave trade -- a chance to mark what many argued was its triumph in thwarting the shooter's re- ported aim to foment racial hatred.
Celebrants at Emanuel Church said the accused gun- man, Dylann Roof, 21, from a rural town near the state capital Columbia, had failed miserably in his quest to break their spirit of love and faith.
"There they were in the house of the Lord, studying your word, praying with one another," said visiting minister John Gillison from the pul- pit.
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. — Seventy-five years after an NAACP activist was killed in West Tennessee amid a drive to register Black voters, a re- tired white attorney is doggedly searching for an- swers in the unsolved case — and a shot at justice.
An old black-and-white pho- tograph on Jim Emison's desk haunts him and goads him to right a long-buried wrong.
In the photo, a man named Elbert Williams peers into the camera, along with two dozen other charter members of the NAACP's Brownsville branch, an audacious group of men and women who regis- tered black voters in the early days of the civil rights move- ment.
Williams would be dead the following year, killed by unknown assailants in Brownsville on June 20, 1940 — martyred for civil rights long before NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a Klansman outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home in 1963.
Three-quarters of a century after the death of Williams — a man historians believe to be the first NAACP member killed for daring to speak up for civil rights — the 71-year- old Emison feels compelled to solve the case.
Elbert Williams was the first NAACP activist killed. He was murdered years before Medgar Evers.
"We should do everything we can do to see who killed this man," Emison said. "If there is anybody in a group that may have done it that's still living, they need to be brought to justice."
Emison's obsession with Williams' death grew more out of what he didn't hear than what he did.
When he was a child, Emi- son sometimes heard his fa- ther, grandfather and uncle — all lawyers — talk about lynch- ings and other atrocities against African Americans. Once his uncle showed him a tree not far from Brownsville where he said a black man had been hanged.
But Emison said the hang- ing bothered his father, and he talked to him about it.
White Lawyer Wants 75 Year
Old Murder Of First
NAACP Activist Killed Solved
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