On Tuesday, a man near Kettler Hall was shot and killed in a police shooting that occurred on the Purdue Fort Wayne’s campus in Indiana.
This incident was one of two police-involved shootings within a 48-hour period. The president of Fort Wayne’s NAACP called for justice following the event.
The person who passed away was identified by the coroner’s office as 31-year-old Gawon Kaerey Benson. He was found on the campus after not returning to DeKalb County, where he was supposed to serve an 80-day sentence for a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
According to 21Alive News the NAACP spoke out.
“I believe we’re all sick and tired of this! And we all want it to stop!” says Fort Wayne NAACP President, Rev. Saharra Bledsoe. “He wasn’t some nefarious black criminal running out in our streets committing all kinds of brutal crimes, he was not that,” Bledsoe continues.
Members of the NAACP and Bledsoe expressed their frustration with the conduct of the police. “This time, this time, there is no doubt that there was a murder that took place in our city of a young black man, and we want justice,” says Bledsoe. “We’re demanding for it to be released. We need to see it. There’s always been a policy where the NAACP and the police, we work together. We’re supposed to be able to see the body cam or whatever else evidence they have, so we can go out and explain it to the community.”
The shooting is currently still under investigation.
