In Memory Of: Black Women Who Died Unjustly
- By
Kelly Franklin
Shantel Davis
In 2012, 23-year-old Shantel Davis had been driving erratically headed westbound on Church Ave. in Brooklyn, and was spotted by undercover police officers running red lights at different intersections. Police pursued the woman and discovered she was driving a stolen grey Toyota Camry, and when she came to a final intersection and crashed into a minivan headed the opposite way they attempted to coax her out of the car. During the scuffle, officer Phil Atkins allegedly shot her by accident in the chest. He and another officer removed Shantel from the car, and she collapsed on the street in a pool of blood and later died while being transported to King’s County Hospital.
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