Black teens were raising money for their football team when a white woman held them at gunpoint, police say
Monday, August 19, 2019
August 19, 2019
Four Arkansas teens were going door to door to raise money for their high school football team when a woman held them at gunpoint, police say.
The 10th-grade boys, who are all black and who were not identified because of their ages, were selling discount cards for restaurants and stores in Wynne, Arkansas, on August 7. Jerri Kelly, who told police that she is a former law enforcement officer and the wife of a county jail administrator, stopped them in front of her home, according to a police report.
Kelly, who is white, said she saw the boys making a ruckus, according to the police report. She called the Wynne Police Department to report "suspicious persons" and in a later statement said, "All males were African American, and I know this residence to be white."
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