Yet another race-induced shooting in the United States. Tensions rise as the 2024 Presidential elections come knocking at the door. A Black man was exonerated after serving a long sentence of 16 years. He was in prison for conviction of an armed robbery.
The convict was fatally shot by a Deputy sheriff in Georgia. The sheriff’s deputy shot the ex-convict when he was at a traffic stop. He was driving to Florida to pay a visit to his mother.
Leonard Allan Cure was 53 years old. The cop pulled him over on Monday morning. He was driving along Interstate 95, the highway near Camden County. The area is situated near the Florida border.
An altercation took place between Cure and the deputy. This information is according to the reports from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
Reports say that this unfortunate encounter took place exactly 20 years to the day when Cure was arrested for armed robbery. His convictions were for charges of assault along with armed robbery in a Walgreens outlet in Dania Beach, Florida.
A year later, a jury found Cure guilty. He was then sentenced to life in prison. However, a judge vacated his convictions in 2020 right after a review panel exonerated him.
In the recent incident, the GBI reports say that the department deputy informed Cure he was under arrest. However, Cure failed to comply with the orders and, in turn, assaulted him. Before shooting, the deputy used a Taser and a baton to try and subdue Cure. The authorities even called in the Paramedics. They treated Cure, but he later died.
Cure was apparently driving with a speed of at least 90 miles per hour where the speed limit was 70. The information is according to that given by the sheriff’s department spokesperson to The New York Times.
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