Tragic shooting death of 15-year-old Cleveland teen upsets the Black community still seeking answers behind the shooting death by a CMHA officer of a 19-year-old Black man.... Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
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Sunday, 13 December 2020 02:40
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Pictured is 15-year-old Anthony Hughes Jr.
CLEVELAND, Ohio-A 15-year-old Cleveland teen was gunned down Wednesday on the city's largely Black east side after leaving a community meeting held at the Boys & Girls Club in the King Kennedy public housing complex about the shooting of Arthur Keith, a 19-year-old man killed on Nov. 13 by a Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority officer.
The tragic shooting death on Wednesday of Anthony Hughes Jr., a popular member of King Kennedy’s Boys & Girls Club of Northeast Ohio and student at James F. Rhodes High School, has upset Cleveland's Black community, and it raises questions about safety in a city that has, in recent years, been repeatedly deemed the most dangerous major city in the country to live in.
No arrests have been made as police search for Hughes' killer, or killers.
Activists and Black leaders want answers behind Hughes' killing, and that of Keith.
Police said Hughes was shot and killed by a shooter who fired 12 bullets at him as he was walking home from the meeting on Keith's death by CMHA police at about 7:30 pm on Dec 9.
Hughes and Keith were neighbors and lived in the same public housing building, authorities said.
Witnesses say, however, that Hughes was allegedly shot at about 16 times.
An autopsy is pending,
A 43-year-old man was shot in the shoulder, and then taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Mayor Frank Jackson has said that the shooting of Keith occurred after a CMHA officer allegedly ordered Keith out of a van with Illinois license plates and that investigators suspected his involvement in a recent shooting. A handgun was reportedly recovered by police.
But activists and some Black leaders remain concerned surrounding the shooting death by law enforcement of Keith at the hands of a CMHA officer, and so many other young Black men by Cleveland police as the city remains a party to a consent decree for police reforms with the U.S. Department of Justice behind the shooting death by city police of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 and at least five other unarmed Blacks since 2012.
Keith's family members, including his father, Scott Hawkins Sr., say the mayor's version of what allegedly happened relative to Keith's shooting is not true, they believe.
“He’s a nice guy, everybody loved him," Keith's father has said. "He had a good relationship with the community and many of his family and friends still lived out there, even though we moved several years ago."
Hughes is the 10th fatal shooting victim this year in Cleveland of a child under the age of 18.
Last Updated on Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:52
