COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — A community is in mourning following Monday night’s not guilty verdict for store owner Rick Chow.
The family of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton provided a statement to ABC News saying, “Yesterday a jury watched our 14-year-old boy run away from two grown men on video. They knew one of them shot him shot him in the back and they still said no one is to blame. We are heartbroken. We do not accept it. Cyrus stole nothing. He was a child, and he was running for his life. Our son mattered. Black families have stood right here too many times — burying our children and then being told the law sees nothing. We feel every bit of that today. To everyone hurting with us: honor Cyrus in peace. We will not stop. We’re taking this fight to civil court, and we will not rest until our son’s life is given the dignity this verdict denied him.”
The unanimous decision by jurors pushed local residents to protest — and pray…