Bring That Week Back: Inmate Turns Up Dead After Security Guard's Threats
Plus, woman slashed for rejecting man's advances.
![Inmate Turns Up Dead After Threats From Security Guard - Woman slashed for rejecting man's advances, plus more national news. —Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_) A family of a Florida inmate is seeking answers after the woman turned up dead Oct. 1 following a letter to her family, telling them that she felt threatened by a prison guard. “He was gone [sic] beat me to death and mess me like a dog,’’ Latandra Ellington said of "Sgt. Q," the Miami Times reports. Ellington was in confinement after her family expressed concern over her safety. Her family is paying for a private autopsy. (Photo: Florida Department of Corrections)](https://images.paramount.tech/uri/mgid:arc:imageassetref:bet.com:ae35a36b-2948-420c-a922-c588f82ed8b6?format=webp&width=2400)
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Inmate Turns Up Dead After Threats From Security Guard - Woman slashed for rejecting man's advances, plus more national news. —Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_) A family of a Florida inmate is seeking answers after the woman turned up dead Oct. 1 following a letter to her family, telling them that she felt threatened by a prison guard. “He was gone [sic] beat me to death and mess me like a dog,’’ Latandra Ellington said of "Sgt. Q," the Miami Times reports. Ellington was in confinement after her family expressed concern over her safety. Her family is paying for a private autopsy. (Photo: Florida Department of Corrections)
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KKK Leaves Fliers in Residential Area of St. Louis - The Ku Klux Klan has been placing fliers around residential driveways and yards in St. Louis. The message left on the fliers read, “You can sleep tonight knowing the klan is awake.” Police responded by saying the fliers aren’t promoting a criminal threat, allowing them to be able to post the fliers.(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Woman Slashed by Man for Rejecting Him - A New York woman was slashed by a man who she rejected. The man approached her in the lobby of an apartment building Oct. 1 and asked her on a date, but she did not express any interest. The man then grabbed the woman from behind and slashed her neck and ran off, the New York Post reports. Police are still looking for the suspect. (Photo: NBC 4, New York Local News)
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Woman Shot and Killed by Man She Rejected - Mary Spears, 27, of Detroit, was shot in the head and killed by a man whose advances she rejected, WDIV reports. The woman was approached by a man in a hall early Sunday morning. When she didn’t show interest, club security threw the man out the club, where he then got into a fight and pulled out his weapon and shot six people, including Spears. (Photo: WDIV-Detroit Local News)
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61-Year-Old Woman Tased by Police Caught on Camera - The family of Viola Young is outraged after a Tallahassee, Fla., police officer tased their grandmother, ABC reports. She was asking officer Terry Mahan about an arrest in her community when he attempted to grab her. She turned away and then he used the Taser. Young is charged with resisting arrest. The incident was caught on camera by neighbors. Mahan has been placed on leave and an investigation has been made into the incident. (Photo: Law Enforcement/Leon County Sheriff's Office, Talahassee, FL)
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Teachers Have Lower Expectations for Students of Color - Teachers have lower expectations for students from high-poverty backgrounds and that are of color, which in turn has a negative impact on their academic success, the Center of American Progress reports. African-American students were viewed as 47 percent less likely to graduate from high school than their peers according to the report “The Power of the Pygmalion Effect.” (Photo: Carlos Osorio/AP Photo)
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Laz Alonso Presents $10,000 Scholarships - Actor Laz Alonso (Fast & Furious 6 and Jumping the Broom), an alumnus of Howard University, showed love to fellow HBCUs this past weekend. Alonso helped present $10,000 scholarships to South Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T University, competing teams in the Atlanta Football Classic Saturday (Oct. 4). SCSU defeated the Aggies 13-0 at the match-up.(Photo: Courtesy Miller Coors)
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Zane Files for Bankruptcy - Kristina Laferne Roberts, widely known as the erotic author Zane, filed for bankruptcy in Maryland in June, the Washington Post reports. Roberts owes the IRS $540,000. A film that adapted Addicted, one of her most popular novels, opens in theatres Oct. 10. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
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Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Dismissed Against Cop Who Killed Stanley-Jones - The most serious charge against Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley, who mistakenly shot and killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a raid, was dropped by a judge on Friday, AP reports. But prosecutors were also given a stay to immediately appeal before closing arguments in the trial. Weekley still faces a misdemeanor charge of careless discharge of a firearm causing death. (Photo: Carlos Osorio, File/AP Photo)