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Family lawyer calls black man's accused shooter 'George Zimmerman 2.0'
Source: Reuters
World | Thu Aug 11, 2016 4:50pm EDT
Family lawyer calls black man's accused shooter 'George Zimmerman 2.0'
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. | BY COLLEEN JENKINS
A lawyer for the family of a man shot and killed in North Carolina called his accused killer "George Zimmerman 2.0" as the dead man's mother pleaded on Thursday for an end to gun violence in the United States.
Chad Copley, who is white, is accused of firing a shotgun from inside his garage into a crowd of people in front of a nearby home on Sunday and killing 20-year-old Kouren Thomas, who was black. Raleigh police arrested Copley, 39, on a murder charge.
An unidentified man called 911 early on Sunday, saying he was on the "neighborhood watch" and heading outside to deal with "hoodlums" who had guns and were racing on his street.
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Bamberg said Kouren Thomas was unarmed and that there was no evidence of guns at a house party he had been attending.
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Family lawyer calls black man's accused shooter 'George Zimmerman 2.0'
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. | BY COLLEEN JENKINS
A lawyer for the family of a man shot and killed in North Carolina called his accused killer "George Zimmerman 2.0" as the dead man's mother pleaded on Thursday for an end to gun violence in the United States.
Chad Copley, who is white, is accused of firing a shotgun from inside his garage into a crowd of people in front of a nearby home on Sunday and killing 20-year-old Kouren Thomas, who was black. Raleigh police arrested Copley, 39, on a murder charge.
An unidentified man called 911 early on Sunday, saying he was on the "neighborhood watch" and heading outside to deal with "hoodlums" who had guns and were racing on his street.
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Bamberg said Kouren Thomas was unarmed and that there was no evidence of guns at a house party he had been attending.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-carolina-shooting-idUSKCN10M2E6
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