{"id":69669,"date":"2013-09-15T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-police-shoot-dead-unarmed-car-crash-victim\/69669\/"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:10:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:10:56","slug":"north-carolina-police-shoot-dead-unarmed-car-crash-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/north-carolina-police-shoot-dead-unarmed-car-crash-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina police shoot dead unarmed car crash victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float: none;\">A North Carolina policeman has been detained after shooting dead an unarmed African-American man, who was trying to get help following a car crash.<\/div>\n<p>On Saturday morning, three police officers in Charlotte, NC<br \/>\nresponded to a 911 call from a woman, who said that an unknown<br \/>\nmale was knocking on the door of her house, the local media<br \/>\nreports.<\/p>\n<p>When the patrol arrived at the scene, the man \u2014 later identified<br \/>\nas Jonathan Farrell, 24 \u2014 rushed at the officers, making them<br \/>\nbelieve that he may be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The policemen tried to neutralize the suspect with a tazer, but<br \/>\nwhen it didn&#8217;t work out, one of them used his gun, firing several<br \/>\nshots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Officer Randall Kerrick (Image by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police)\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/20\/71\/e0\/00\/1.jpg\" \/>Farrell died of his wounds on<br \/>\nsight. The body search revealed that he had no weapon on him.<\/p>\n<p>Several hours later a wrecked car belonging to the deceased man<br \/>\nwas discovered at a nearby embankment.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was serious as Farrell had to climb out of the back<br \/>\nwindow of the vehicle, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief, Rodney<br \/>\nMonroe, said.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe stressed at a news conference that he didn&#8217;t think that<br \/>\nthe victim was trying to rob the woman, who called the police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe threats were made,&#8221; the law enforcement chief is<br \/>\ncited as saying by AP.<\/p>\n<p>The investigators suggest that Farrell, who used to be a football<br \/>\nplayer at Florida A&amp;M University, may have been involved in<br \/>\nan accident and was knocking on a nearby houses in order to get<br \/>\nhelp.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Randall Kerrick, 24, was arrested and charged with<br \/>\nvoluntary manslaughter for shooting the unarmed victim.<\/p>\n<p>Kerrick, who has been with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police since<br \/>\nApril 2011, is \u201cpretty shook up\u201d and \u201cdevastated\u201d by what has<br \/>\nhappened, Monroe added.<\/p>\n<p>The two other policemen on the scene have been placed on paid<br \/>\nadministrative leave until the investigation of the tragic<br \/>\nincident concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright: <a title=\"North Carolina police shoot dead unarmed car crash victim\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/crash-farrell-shot-police-894\/\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Carolina policeman has been detained after shooting dead an unarmed African-American man, who was trying to get help following a car crash. On Saturday morning, three police officers in Charlotte, NC responded to a 911 call from a woman, who said that an unknown male was knocking on the door of her house, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}