Twenty-eight-year-old Sandra Bland, who died in a Waller County, Texas jail three days after her arrest, allegedly told jailers during her intake that she had previously tried to commit suicide, according to The Houston Chronicle. The information came to light after a closed meeting with dozens of elected officials and law enforcement officials on Tuesday, which […]
Despite claims that Sandra Bland committed suicide in a Texas jail cell following a violent arrest after a traffic stop, a Waller County prosecutor said an investigation into her death is being handled “like a murder investigation,” according to ABC News. “This is being treated like a murder investigation,” Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis […]
The family of Sandra Bland has taken matters into their own hands regarding the 28-year-old’s alleged suicide in a Texas jail cell. According to NBC News, Attorney Cannon Lambert says Sandra Bland’s family ordered the independent autopsy last week. Lambert added the family doesn’t believe the Hempstead Police Department’s account of events that led to her […]
Authorities in Alabama claim a teen committed suicide in a jail cell an hour after being arrested, another suspicious case of a Black woman dying in police custody in the past week. Kindra Darnell Chapman, 18, was jailed last Tuesday for allegedly stealing someone’s phone on the street, according to the Huffington Post. Chapman was charged with […]
With a job waiting for her, a woman from the Chicago suburbs drove to Texas to start a new chapter of her life on July 9. Three days later, Sandra Bland was arrested for “assault of a public servant,” during a routine traffic stop in Waller County. And on July 13, police found her dead in her […]
Dylann Roof, the accused gunman of the Emanuel AME Shooting, planned to kill himself during last week’s attack, The LA Times reports. The son of Charleston victim Myra Thompson says he was told the story by Polly Sheppard, 69, one of two adult survivors. Felicia Sanders, 57, and her granddaughter also survived the shooting by pretending to play dead. […]
According to a new study, the suicide rate amongst African-American children has almost doubled within the last two decades. The research, which was published in JAMA Pediatrics earlier this week, showed that the rate for Black children between the ages of 5 to 11 has increased from 1.36 per one million children to 2.54. The […]
When natural hair icon Titi Branch, co-founder of the wildly successful hair-care line Miss Jessie’s, committed suicide in December 2014, shocked supporters were left devastated. RELATED: 45-Year-Old Founder of Miss Jessie’s Dies But no one felt the pain as much as her sister, best friend and business partner Miko Branch, who is now claiming that Titi’s boyfriend […]
The family of Otis Byrd, the man who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month, has hired a well-renowned medical examiner to investigate the case. The family of the 54-year-old has hired Michael Baden to conduct an independent investigation on Byrd’s body, refusing to believe he took his own life, reports the Clarion-Ledger. Because the […]
Eighteen-year-old Blake Brockington, a transgender activist, died after an apparent suicide last Monday. Brockington was crowned Homecoming King at East Mecklenburg High School last year, making history as the first transgender homecoming king in North Carolina. It was after Brockington won the title that he realized how terrible people could be. “That was single-handedly the hardest part […]
Authorities have yet to confirm if a missing man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last week was killed or committed suicide, but the FBI is now consulting with the Behavioral Analysis Unit (or “profilers”) to break the case. Otis Byrd, 54, was found with a sheet around his neck near his Port Gibson […]
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that preliminary results from an autopsy on the body of Otis Byrd, the man officials found hanging from a tree in Mississippi Thursday, suggests the cause of death was suicide. Investigators, however, have not yet released Byrd’s official cause of death. “Everybody wants answers and wants them quickly,” Special FBI […]
