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By Paula Peterson SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It's been 5 years, two months and 29 days since Dennis "Spike" Wright, Jr. was killed in South Lake Tahoe over a planned sale of 104 pounds of marijuana outside of a motel room. Local law enforcement quickly rounded up the group of suspects from Vallejo, California to Harrison County, Texas, and Oklahoma City. Arrested were (Arrest dates and suspect name, age at the time of arrest) 2/16/16 - Tristan Batten, 18, was arrested in Vallejo, Calif. 2/17/16 - Harvest Davidson, 20, of Antioch, Calif. was arrested in Sacramento...

Chyna Whitaker, the mother of Daunte Wright‘s son, spoke publicly for the first time Friday since the 20-year-old Black man was killed by police near Minneapolis last week. At a press conference, Whitaker, 20, explained how Wright’s death has impacted her and the toddler, Daunte Wright Jr, they shared, saying that she is in shock and has yet to fully process reality. “I never thought, like, in a million years that this would happen. Everything’s still all really just hitting me now because I still haven’t fully, like, understood everything going on right now,” she said. “I’m...

"I'm just really hurt for my son because he doesn't have his father now."

She called Daunte Jr., her only grandchild, a "miracle baby" because he was born prematurely.  "I'm hurt that he will not have his dad," she said. "He will have pictures. He will have history. He will have family that tells him about his dad on both sides... but he will not have his biological father." Bowers spoke of the impacts of a child growing up in a fatherless home.  "He (Wright Jr.) is going to be affected throughout his entire life not having his father there to take him to prom or give him advice, to argue with and not having his father to be able to emulate... and to be able to m...