Her mother chided her that she should have listened and stayed away from that dance. Friends spoke about it casually and even jokingly, quickly moving past it in their conversations. No one asked her directly how she felt about what had happened.
The city had declared bankruptcy as a result of fiscal mismanagement and the housing market crash. Terri Lynn McCoy was one of nine people killed in a hour period in October of that year — one of 71 homicides that year. He was visiting a public housing development up the street from his house when he and another man were shot and killed. McCoy-Ham was 34 by then, and had worked her way through college and had three daughters.
When she got the call that her brother had been shot, she drove to the apartment complex where it happened. She saw the yellow crime scene tape and, through the glass door of one apartment, blood. Then she saw her brother lying on a walkway. As she knelt beside him, it started to rain. A married father and stepfather by the time he died, Terri was remembered by his sister as a joker and a great hugger.
But he was also on parole, and police said another man killed in the incident was affiliated with a gang. McCoy-Ham found that sparked a feeling in some people that he somehow deserved what happened. Gradually, McCoy-Ham began to participate in groups that supported crime victims. Jones listened, and passed the message to his officers.
He told them that whatever their next call is, it can almost always wait while they answer a few questions or explain their actions.
Another thing communities would appreciate after a trauma, McCoy-Ham suggested, would be for police to return a few days later to answer questions and listen to concerns. He found it not only helped build trust, it also helped them solve crimes. Jones remembers being shocked when McCoy-Ham told him how little she knew about what happened to her brother.
She had always been plagued by the rumors that Terri had fired at his killer first. Jones found that there was no evidence that Terri had fired a gun on the night he died. When he saw how much that knowledge meant to McCoy-Ham and her family, he was surprised and humbled. It would have taken very little for police to share such a fact years earlier.
This summer, as communities across the country protested police violence, McCoy-Ham got a call that nearly crumbled the foundation she had built working with law enforcement.
Two years later, tensions between the Hatfields and McCoys again boiled over. Unfortunately, the joyous festivities of this Election Day soon turned sour. Tolbert stabbed Ellison several times, and he also received some help in the assault from two of his brothers, Pharmer and Randolph Jr. Ellison was also shot once in the back during the attack. The three McCoy brothers were arrested. As they were on their way to jail, the McCoy brothers were taken from the lawmen by Devil Anse Hatfield and his supporters.
Hatfield took the boys to West Virginia, where he waited for word about his brother Ellison. Randall's wife Sally traveled to the place where the boys were being held and begged for the lives of her sons, but she could not sway the Hatfields. After learning his brother had died, Devil Anse and his men tied the McCoy boys to some pawpaw bushes and shot them.
An indictment was issued against Devil Anse and 19 others for these killings, but no one was willing to arrest the Hatfields and their kin for the crimes. Oddly enough, McCoy did not immediately strike back at the Hatfields in retaliation for his sons' deaths.
It was his friend and relative by marriage Perry Cline who ignited another wave of violence in the Hatfield-McCoy feud. In , Cline convinced the governor of Kentucky to issue a reward for the capture of Devil Anse and the others indicted in the McCoy murders.
He brought in "Bad" Frank Phillips to assist in the capture of the fugitives, and Phillips led raids into West Virginia to get these men.
He was able to capture several of them, including Devil Anse's brother Valentine. Some of the Hatfields decided that the best way to end the indictments against him and his supporters was to get rid of the witnesses. Experts are divided on whether Devil Anse was the mastermind of this plot.
Johnse accidentally fired at the house before they were ready to attack, giving Randall and his family a warning of what was to come. The two sides exchanged gunfire, and then Vance lit the house on fire.
McCoy's daughter Alifair was shot to death as she tried to flee, and his wife Sally was badly injured when she attempted to comfort Alifair. McCoy's son Calvin was also killed, but Randall was able to escape the house and hide in a pigpen.
Two of his daughters, Adelaide and Fanny, also survived the attack. Reports of the attack made newspaper headlines across the country, and the Hatfield-McCoy feud became a subject of great interest to many. Reporters traveled to this remote region to get more on the story, and the press exaggerated the details of the conflict.
They also followed the ensuing trials as some of the conspirators in the McCoy brothers' murders and the New Year's Day attack were brought to justice. Ellison Mounts was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Alifair McCoy in Valentine Hatfield and eight others were tried that same year for the McCoy brothers' murders.
They were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Randall McCoy was disappointed in the verdict. He reportedly tried to get a group together to enact some vigilante justice of his own, but he failed to garner enough support to pull it off. After the trials, McCoy seemed to live a quiet life in Kentucky. He operated a ferry in Pikeville for some time. Willie dressed the part. He represents hip-hop music. They are profiled.
Even when they have a person subdued and their life is not in danger, they continue to be blatantly physically disrespectful. That is just accepted in America.
He was passionate. Vallejo is the hometown of many successful rappers and musicians. If you needed a ride, he was there. There have been two high-profile cases in the broader Bay Area of police fatally shooting people after waking them up, prompting civil rights litigation.
Last year, four officers in Oakland shot a homeless man who was armed and sleeping between two houses when they arrived, prompting an excessive force lawsuit that the family filed last week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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