Young, Gifted and Black sources say 19-year-old shot dead 5 times by an Madison Police officer. @BadgerHerald pic.twitter.com/WxzahybXpU
— Rachael Lallensack (@rlallensack) March 7, 2015
A police officer in Wisconsin fatally shot an African-American teenager in his apartment, sparking protests on the site and on social media.
Wisconsin police fatally shot an apparently unarmed African-American teenager.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said that an officer responded to a disturbance around 6:30 p.m. local time and later broke into the apartment of the 19-year-old, who was also suspected of a recent battery.