Press Release To All Media As To Imperial Ave Murders Press Conference May 14, 2011 AT 4:30 PM, 40 Severance Circle, In Front Of Cleveland Hts. Police Station
[1]From the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com [2])
PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
JOIN US FOR A PRESS CONFERENCE AT 4:30 PM ON SAT, MAY 14, 2011 IN FRONT OF THE CLEVELAND HTS POLICE STATION, 40 SEVERANCE CIRCLE IN THE CLEVELAND HTS PLAZA, CLEVELAND HTS., OH WHERE A PLAIN DEALER STORY OF TODAY REVEALS THAT CLEVELAND HTS DETECTIVES FAILED TO TEST A RAPE KIT IN APRIL 2009 WHERE A WOMAN SAYS SHE WAS ABDUCTED, TAKEN TO A HOME AND REPEATEDLY RAPED, AND THE DNA IS NOW LINKED TO ALLEGED SERIAL KILLER ANTHONY SOWELL. THE BODIES OF 11 MURDERED BLACK WOMEN WERE FOUND AT THE SOWELL HOME ON IMPERIAL AVE. IN CLEVELAND IN OCT. 2009, SOME SIX MONTHS AFTER CLEVELAND HTS FAILED TO TEST THE RAPE KIT. SOWELL AWAITS TRIAL FOR JUNE 6 IN A CAPITAL MURDER CASE AS TO THOSE AND OTHER WOMEN.
CONTACTS: KATHY WRAY COLEMAN (LEADER OF THE IMPERIAL WOMEN) AT 216-932-3114 or 216-376-0722 (CELL PHONE), ART MCKOY (BLACK ON BLACK CRIME) AT 216-253-4070 OR JUDY MARTIN (SURVIVORS AND VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY) AT 216-990-0679
SOWELL IS A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER WHO SPENT 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED RAPE. HE IS CHARGED WITH NUMEROUS COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED MURDER, RAPE, KIDNAPPING AND OTHER CHARGES. LET'S NOT LET THE IMPERIAL WOMEN DIE IN VAIN AND WE WANT QUESTIONS AS TO WHY CLEVELAND HTS DETECTIVES DID NOT TEST THE RAPE KIT IN APRIL 2009 SINCE THE IMPERIAL AVE. BODIES WERE FOUND IN OCT 2009. WOMEN DO NOT COUNT IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND THE RAPE OF THEM SEEMS YO MEAN NOTHING TO DETECTIVES, POLICE AND CITY OFFICIALS IN BOTH CLEVELAND HTS AND CLEVELAND, THE LATTER OF WHOM RELEASED SOWELL IN 2008 WHERE SIX OF THE 11 WOMEN WERE MURDERED THEREAFTER.
WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE
WHEN: AT 4:30 PM SAT, MAY 14, 2011
WHERE: IN FRONT OF THE CLEVELAND HTS POLICE STATION, 40 SEVERANCE CIRCLE
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: THE IMPERIAL WOMEN, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME, OHIO FAMILY RIGHTS, THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR PARENTAL EQUALITY, SURVIVORS AND VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY, THE PEOPLE'S FORUM, THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE'S NATION, STOP TARGETING OHIO'S POOR, CLEVELAND FIST, THE SOWELL 11, THE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN ONLINE NEWS BLOG.COM, THECOUNTYGRANDJURY.ORG, THE GREATER CLEVELAND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT NETWORK, THE LUCASVILLE UPRISING FREEDOM NETWORK AND THE BAILOUT THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT
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Posted By Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman to THE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN ONLINE NEWS BLOG.COM [3] at 5/13/2011 02:05:00 PM