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Nov 17, 2022 · Leonard Brown, 20, and Denver Smith, also 20, were among the participants. Sadly, after the crowd was inundated with tear gas, a law enforcement officer who was never identified or prosecuted...
Nov 15, 2022 · When the smoke cleared, two students, Leonard Brown and Denver Smith, were dead. The coroner, Hypolyte Landry, reported that the students were the victims of either buckshot or shrapnel. No officer was ever charged with the crime.
Nov 14, 2022 · Shunda Wallace was 3 months old when her father, Leonard Brown, and another student, Denver Smith, were shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy on Southern University’s campus in November 1972. Fifty...
10th April 2017 · 0 Comments. More than four decades after Southern University-Baton Rouge undergraduate students Denver Smith and Leonard Brown were fatally shot by an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy during a 1972 campus protest, the historically Black public university will honor the two by awarding them posthumous degrees.
Nov 17, 2022 · That morning, Leonard Brown and Denver Smith, both just twenty years old, were senselessly and unjustly killed when a law enforcement officer, who was never identified or prosecuted, fired into a crowd of students fleeing from tear gas.
Nov 14, 2022 · BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Southern University is marking the 50th anniversary of the deaths of students Denver Smith and Leonard Brown through a week of events starting Monday, Nov. 14. The two...
Nov 15, 2022 · BATON ROUGE —The LSU Cold Case Project will present findings from its four-part investigative series, which re-examined the 1972 shooting of two Southern University students, Denver Smith and Leonard Brown, at Southern University’s 50th anniversary commemoration of the students’ deaths on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m. CT at the Old State Capit...
