Thomas Jefferson Byrd lifeless: Actor in Spike Lee motion pictures shot to

ATLANTA — Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, identified for his roles in Spike Lee motion pictures, has been shot and killed in Atlanta, police stated Sunday. Police spoke back to a decision round 1:45 a.m. Saturday and located the 70-year-old Byrd unresponsive with more than one gunshot wounds in his again, police spokesman Officer Anthony Grant stated in a commentary. Responding paramedics pronounced him lifeless on the scene at the town’s southwest facet, the place he lived. Grant stated murder detectives have been operating to resolve the cases surrounding the taking pictures and declined to supply additional main points. In an Instagram submit Sunday, Lee stated he was once unhappy to announce Byrd’s loss of life and recalled how the actor “did

Prosecution rests in Tyshawn Lee homicide trial

Cook County prosecutors Wednesday placed on their ultimate witness within the trial of two males charged with the homicide of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, closing out 12 days of testimony with heart-rending pictures of the fourth-grader’s post-mortem. Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Ponni Arunkumar spent a couple of half hour on the witness stand, reviewing the injuries suffered by Tyshawn within the 2015 taking pictures. The deadly gunshot struck the boy in the appropriate temple. More chilling accidents have been smaller marks on Tyshawn’s face made by bullet that Arunkumar stated may need fragmented when it caught his thumb — almost severing it — as he tried to defend his face. Those wounds additionally confirmed flecks