Jonathan Ferrell

Randall Kerrick, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who gunned down Jonathan Ferrell while the unarmed man was seeking help following a car accident on September 14,…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state attorneys have decided against retrying a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man after his trial ended last week in a deadlock. Senior Deputy Attorney General Robert Montgomery told the Mecklenburg County district attorney Friday of the state’s decision in the case of Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A juror who heard evidence in the trial of a white North Carolina police officer said he challenged his colleagues to determine what an unarmed black man did to lead the defendant to fatally shoot him. “I wrote on the board: ‘What did Jonathan Ferrell do, and I underlined “do,” to […]

A deadlock of 8-4 in the trial of the police officer who shot and killed unarmed Black man, Jonathan Ferrell, has resulted in a mistrial.

Randall Kerrick, the police officer charged with killing Jonathan Ferrell, said he thought he was going to die during the encounter.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Randall Kerrick says he didn’t remember how many times he fired his service weapon at an unarmed black man nearly two years ago. But the white police officer was clear in his testimony to a jury about why he considered shooting the man at all. “He was going to attack me. […]

Almost two years since the police shooting death of 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell, the dashcam footage has finally been released to the public. UPDATE: No Drugs,…

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina has stopped paying the  civil defense legal fees of Randall ‘Wes’ Kerrick, 28, the police officer charged with voluntary…

A week ago, I saw a flier in my Harlem barbershop about a rally to mark the two-year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death at the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Charlotte police officer for voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed former Florida A&M football player. The indictment came Monday hours after a judge ruled the North Carolina Attorney General’s office could resubmit the case to a grand jury. Investigators say Randall Kerrick […]

To the surprise of many, Tuesday, a grand jury decided not to indict Randall Kerrick on the charge of voluntary manslaughter. Kerrick, who was on-duty as an officer at the time, murdered Jonathan Ferrell on September 14, 2013 after firing 12 shots and striking him 10 times. Ferrell was unarmed and seeking help in Charlotte, […]

01/22/14-  Roland Martin talks with attorney Chris Chestnut, the lawyer representing the family of Jonathan Ferrell, about a grand jury’s controversial decision to not indict Randall Kerrick on a voluntary manslaughter charge. Kerrick is responsible for the death of Ferrell after he shot the former FAMU football player 10 times. For iPhone users: