Black Leaders Seek Witnesses

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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"Black Leaders Seek Witnesses
Black community leaders are urging anyone who has any information on how Jerome J. Hall ended up shot to death along North Fourth Street on Thanksgiving to come forward.
"We are asking (investigators) to be vigilant to find the culprit," said Joe Powdrell, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Two weeks after Hall, 42, was found dying on Fourth Street near Schulte NW, investigators are trying to piece together how he ended up there. Hall was found suffering from gunshot wounds. He died on the way to the hospital.
Six days before Hall died, a federal jury had awarded him $307,000 in an excessive force case against three Albuquerque Police Department officers. Hall had not collected any of the money at the time of his death."