La’ren Dickens

Death by Force

La’ren Dickens, 20, a Black woman from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, died in the early hours of Sunday, July 13, 2025. Officers were called just before 3 a.m. to the 800 block of Virginia Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, where they found Dickens and 19-year-old Ryo Steele with gunshot wounds; despite life-saving efforts, both were pronounced dead at the scene. Local coverage that day described the killings as one of multiple shootings across the weekend as detectives worked to piece toget ...Read More

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