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No one was ever charged in connection with the incident, which left freshmen Denver Smith and Leonard Brown dead from shotgun wounds. The deaths have haunted Pratt ever since. He recalls the date of the shootings almost as easily as his birthday or wedding anniversary.
Nov 16, 1972 · Leonard Brown was a 20-year-old student at Southern University, a historically Black university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1972, students at Southern, then the largest public Black college in ...
Feb 18, 2018 · The bodies of Denver Smith and Leonard Brown lay outside the Southern University Administration Building on Nov. 16, 1972. The students were killed during a confrontation with law enforcement ...
Nov 16, 2023 · A still-unidentified officer shot and killed two 20-year-old students, Leonard Brown and Denver Smith, who weren’t among the protesters. No one was ever prosecuted in their slayings. They have since been awarded posthumous degrees, and the university’s Smith-Brown Memorial Union bears their names. Stanley Nelson’s documentary, “Tell ...
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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 ...
Nov 17, 2022 · Leonard Brown and Denver Smith were shot and killed during a peaceful protest on Southern’s campus in 1972. Fifty years later, current students, faculty, and former students walk hand in hand ...
