Missouri family seeks answers in Black 19-year-old’s death
Associated PressDerontae Martin was a playful and outgoing 19-year-old, a former football standout and a “big kid” who looked out for his friends and family. Now, his mother, grandmother and racial injustice activists are questioning the official account of how the young Black man ended up shot to death during a prom party inside the rural Missouri home of a middle-aged white man with a history of bigoted social media postings. He was a loyal, faithful friend to those that he cared about.” Martin’s family lived in the St. Louis area until about a decade ago, when they moved to Park Hills, a town of 8,500 residents in Missouri’s Old Lead Belt region about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis. The Missouri State Highway Patrol was asked to review Madison County’s investigation, and concurred with the initial finding of suicide, though additional witnesses are still being sought, patrol Sgt. there is negligence here.” Gray and Ericka Lotts met last week with Madison County Prosecuting Attorney M. Dwight Robbins, who asked the Missouri attorney general’s office to investigate.
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