On Sunday, authorities charged 20-year-old Eric Black Jr. with capital murder in the tragic and senseless death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes. Barnes was killed in a drive-by shooting on December 30 while she was in a vehicle with her mother and siblings in Houston, Texas.
Though initial reports, civil rights leaders, and racial activists framed the murder as a racially-motivated hate crime, the suspect, like young Jazmine, is black. The second suspect, 24-year-old Larry Woodruffe, a possible accomplice in the drive-by shooting, is also a black male.
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