What happened for 6 cops 59 shots 43 wounds and 1 dead man in Chattanooga, Tennessee recently?”
Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six Chattanooga police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it had to end. His father says Heyward told the officers, “I’m not out here to hurt anybody.” But the police, who tried unsuccessfully to disarm Heyward, fired 59 rounds to kill him on July 18. The medical examiner found 43 bullet wounds in his chest, face, arms, hands, legs, buttocks and groin. Police contend Heyward was a danger to others and threatened the six officers. Chattanooga police spokeswoman Jerri Weary described the case as “suicide by cop.” As questions continue to surround the shooting, Heyward’s family and civil rights leaders take issue with the police response. “We have a large concern about the amount of shots fired,” said Valoria Armstrong, president of the NAACP branch in Chattanooga. A Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoon a
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