Fred Cox rally draws dozens, family members of Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake to downtown GSO

On late Friday afternoon, just as the clouds began to recede and warmth from the sun’s rays beamed down from the sky, Tenicka Shannon greeted the numerous people who had come to pay their respects to her and her family. Since November 2020, Shannon and others have been fighting for justice since her son, Fred Cox Jr., was shot and killed by a Davidson County sheriff’s deputy while attending a memorial service at a church.

Despite the Guilford County attorney’s office’s findings that Cox died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Marcus Shane Hill with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department, a grand jury failed to indict Hill in June 2021.

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