The first time I met Rolanda Byrd was outside of a community meeting at the Bible Way Temple in southeast Raleigh following the fatal shooting of her son, 24-year-old Akiel Denkins, by RPD officer D.C ...

A prosecutor says a white North Carolina officer who shot a black man acted in self-defense and won't face criminal charges in the case, which sparked an outcry in the predominantly black neighborhood ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The Wake County District Attorney released a statement Saturday that a possible bullet hole found near the scene of a fatal police-involved shooting was not related to the shooting ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The family of a man shot and killed by a Raleigh police officer says there are inconsistencies with Wake County District Attorney's Office report of the investigation. The NAACP ...

“I think that this tragedy, and it is a tragedy ... caused and created opportunity for some very important conversations in our community. Conversations about the way the police interact with the ...

As tensions simmer in a south Raleigh community where 24-year-old Akiel Rakim Lakeith Denkins was shot and killed Monday afternoon by a police officer, a retired officer offers a unique perspective.

AKIEL DUKE was forced to settle for the silver medal in his own tournament for the third time in the last four years, at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre, recently. The left hander, who defaulted a ...

Family members of Akiel Denkins, the southeast Raleigh man who was fatally shot by a city police officer in February, will make a request to the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Denkins’s ...

RALEIGH, N.C.-- A white North Carolina officer fatally shot a black man during a struggle when the man pulled a gun from his waistband and then reached toward the officer's weapon, police said ...

“Who knew Akiel?” he asked the congregation at Bible Way Temple on day, and hundreds thundered back. “We loved Akiel.” Within hours of Denkins’ death, friends and family built a shrine on the front of ...

Rolanda Byrd is outraged that her son Akiel Denkins, 24, was allegedly shot by North Carolina police on Monday, February 29th. Reportedly, Denkins was wanted for a felony drug charge. He had been ...