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| Marco McMillian (left) and Kenny Clutch's (right) lives were gunned down by individuals who didn't care about their inspiring careers. These two made the national news. |
Another twofer. Two urban tragedies in a week made the national news.
Of course these stories made it to the national circuit. The conservative/white supremacist bubble practically saw two individuals who happen to be Black. One being a rapper and another being a gay man running for office.
The conservative/white supremacists thoughts of a Black murder victim.
In the conservative/white supremacist bubble, you'll expect the word vomit of hate to flow down a comment section. The usual word vomit includes racial slurs, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Trayvon Martin, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. They insert political warfare and the usual blame the Niggers not the guns excuse.
And there you have it, a reactionary bigot responding to a tragedy in the Black community.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to Kenny Clutch, Michael Bolden, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund and Marco McMillian. Each of these victims died in senseless tragedies.
First we'll start with the victim of the Las Vegas shooting. Kenny Clutch, born Kenneth Cherry, Jr. was a 26 year old inspiring rapper who was gunned down. His shooter and person of interest were finally caught.
Clutch and the shooter were in a high speed chase and the gunman shot at his Maserati. The Maserati crashed into a taxi cab killing the driver and a passenger.
| Ammar Harris was caught by the FBI. |
Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones says Ammar Harris, a felon, was arrested Thursday by a team of police and federal agents in Studio City.
The 26-year-old is a self-described pimp who was the subject of a multi-state manhunt following the Feb. 21 gunfire and chain-reaction crash that killed three and injured at least five.
Police say he fired at least five shots into a Maserati sports car, killing aspiring rapper Wayne Cherry Jr. who he argued with earlier in the valet area of a Las Vegas Strip resort.
Mortally wounded, Cherry accelerated and slammed into a taxi cab that burst into flames, killing cab driver Michael Boldon and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Washington.
According to CBS Miami, Harris was arrested in Miami Beach last December for reckless driving. Police say he was also cited for driving without a valid license.
The FBI is also looking into Harris' history as a "self-proclaimed" pimp. He is also under investigation for child abuse, sexual assault and weapons possession.
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Yeah, another tragedy. An openly gay mayoral candidate was gunned down near his home. This is a controversy brewing down in Mississippi. The mayoral candidate by the name of Marco McMillian was found dead. The prospect of this individual running for higher office was shattered by a gun tragedy. The shooter was caught and the FBI and Coahoma County Sheriff are wondering what inspired this individual to kill a man with a promising career.
CBS News reports that a 22-year-old man (assuming McMillian's boyfriend) was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate in the Mississippi Delta.
The Coahoma County Sheriff's Department said in a news release that Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged in the death of Marco McMillian. McMillian, 34, was a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale and was well-known in the community and beyond.
An investigation began Tuesday when a man crashed McMillian's SUV into another car on U.S. Highway 49 near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines. The candidate wasn't in the car.
McMillian's body was found near the Mississippi River levee Wednesday morning between Sherard and Rena Lara, Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith has said.
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| Lawrence Reed was arrested in the death of Marco McMillian |
"There's a lot of people upset about it," said Dennis Thomas, 33, who works at Abe's Barbeque.
"Why would somebody want to do something like that to somebody of that caliber? He was a highly respected person in town," Thomas said.
The sheriff's department has not released a possible motive for the crime.
Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith has said McMillian's campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.
McMillian, who was black, had forged ties while serving for four years as international executive director of the historically black Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Photos on McMillian's website and Facebook page show him with a younger Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat.
McMillian was CEO of MWM & Associates, described on its website as a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. In addition to his role at the fraternity from 2007 to 2011, McMillian had previously worked to raise funds as executive assistant to the president at Alabama A&M University and as assistant to the vice president at Jackson State University, according to his campaign.
A statement from the fraternity said he had secured the first federal contract to raise awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on communities of color. It noted that Ebony Magazine had recognized him in 2004 as one of the nation's "30 up-and-coming African Americans" under age 30.
Supporters say McMillian — a 1997 graduate of Clarksdale High School who graduated magna cum laude from Jackson State and held a master's degree from St. Mary's University in Minnesota in philanthropy and development — had big ideas for Clarksdale, a town of about 17,800 people.
The town is well known to blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar. Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman is part owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in town. Clarksdale also is hounded by the poverty typical of the Mississippi Delta.
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