ABC11 reports While police have not identified the dead man, shortly after the shooting, a woman on the scene told ABC11 that officers shot her son, Akil Denkins, who was wanted on a warrant.
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The chant has been used repeatedly across the nation in recent years to protest the deaths of black men following encounters with law enforcement officers. A gun was found “in close proximity” to the body, police said.
According to NC Department of Public Safety records, Denkins has been convicted three times on drug charges, including an arrest for cocaine distribution in October.
However, local media reported a woman at the scene as saying a cousin had told her a police officer had shot and killed her 24-year-old son.
Authorities say a police officer has shot someone near downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
A man running from the Raleigh Police was shot and killed Monday at the intersection of Bragg and East streets, a shooting that had neighbors concerned and police blocking off the area where the incident happened. She says she was told by witnesses that Denkins, the father of two, was shot seven times in the back.
“People are just frustrated, angry, upset and disappointed”, he said.
Her view was blocked so Wilson didn’t see the victim fall from bullets.
Over 100 people rallied in Raleigh, North Carolina after police fatally shot an African American man during a foot chase.
Bishop Darnell Dixon, who for 20 years has served as pastor of the Bibleway Temple church about a quarter-mile from where the shooting happened, said neighborhood relations with the police have generally been good, and he believed calm would prevail.
Rolanda Byrd also said that her son had died in the shooting. “Then I heard the screams”. She said the State Bureau of Investigation will review the case, as is typical for fatal shootings by police officers.
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Casanova Womack, who lives in the neighborhood, told WRAL that tensions were high in the neighborhood. The Raleigh Police Department said in a statement that the shooting happened shortly after noon Monday, but provided no details on what led to the shooting, who was shot, or what that persons condition was.
