On the evening of October 14, 2015, a memorial gathering in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, turned into a scene of tragedy. Synika George James, a 37-year-old Black / African American man, was among those who had convened in an alley at Cypress Street and Reaney Avenue to honor the memory of Naressa "NuNu" Turner, a young woman who had been killed in the same location three years prior. The vigil, intended to be a brief and solemn remembrance, was shattered by the sound
...Read More