Anya Slaughter (mother), Kenneth McDade (father), and attorney Caree Harper
*Pasadena, Calif. - Caree Harper, the attorney for the family of the 19-year-old Citrus college student Kendrec McDade who was who was recently shot and killed by two white Pasadena police officers, says that besides dealing with the grief of the losing their son, they must now raise $10,000 by Sat., April 7th to bury their son, with half of that amount being due by Wed., April 4th.
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Kendrec McDade, also known as the Trayvon Martin of the Los Angeles, was fatally shot by Pasadena police on March 24th, after a man called 911 to report he had been robbed by a pair of gunmen. The two officers who arrived on the scene believed that McDade was reaching for a gun and opened fire killing him. No weapon was found on McDade.
Kendrec McDade
Oscar Carillo, the 911 caller whose backpack had been stolen from him, later admitted he lied about the guns in order to get a more urgent police response. He has since been arrested for lying to the police.
However, while questions and accusations fly about the death of McDade, his can’t move forward until they bury their son. In addition to their rising legal fees as they move forward in the pursuit of justice, McDade’s death is unexpected expense that requires them to ask for public help.
A memorial fund has been started at Chase Bank in the name of Kendrec McDade to help pay for the young student’s burial.
Chase Bank
Kenneth McDade and Anya Slaughter
Kendrec McDade Memorial Fund
Account No. 452408953
Routing No. 322271627
How to Donate
- Go to any Chase Bank and donate to the Kendrec McDade Memorial Fund
(Account # 452408953) - Go to your own bank and ask to transfer an amount to the Kendrec McDade Memorial Fund
(Account # 452408953) at Chase Bank using the routing #322271627
Hopefully Al Sharpton and Spike Lee ‘do the right thang’.
I’m sorry, son, but from the details I’ve gleaned regarding Kendrec McDade, this is NO Trayvon Martin story. They can go on and describe him as “19-year-old Citrus college student Kendrec McDade”, but he was still in the middle of committing a robbery, from all accounts. While this still deals with the police shooting of unarmed black youth, the circumstances paint a completely different picture. I feel the focus on this story distracts from the spirit of what we’re all fighting for regarding the unanswered murder of Trayvon Martin. This is another black man killed, who leaves a grieving family behind, so prayers are mandatory, but I just don’t like how the focus is being shifted to this, leaving the segue to compare him to Trayvon Martin, who was simply walking home.
have you not seen the trayvon martin case lately, he wasn’t just “walking home” he was being a punk ass kid just like kendrec was, just because trayvon was stopped in the act doesn’t make him less innocent, back to the real case,both of em were not doing anything to deserve to be shot at, but kendrec had no weapon and wasn’t even attacking the shooter where as trayvon did give some injuries to zimmerman while assaulting him….or u can just believe the media because they sure don’t lie
We don’t want to believe the media, Zimmerman or anyone defending Trayvon. We want the facts. Not the lies from the police to cover for Zimmerman once the state attorney told them to. No one believed his lies at the scene of the crime, that is why he was arrested and the lead investigator wanted to charge him with manslaughter. Can’t you still not see what’s going on?
How about Zimmerman turning himself in so we can get an X-ray of the broken nose. Those injuries will be visible through an X-ray for the rest of his life.
How about the head injuries? There will be scars on his skin and stress fractures on his skull, visible through X-rays.
OK, he doesn’t need to turn himself in until there is an arrest warrant, but instead of his father and brother constantly making the case that his nose was broken and his head bashed in, why don’t they volunteer the X-ray as proof?
If you really think that someone could be so comfortable thirty minutes after getting his nose broken, volunteer for us to break your nose, and let’s see how at ease you will be while being in cuffs?
And what will you say when a sample of Trayvon voice is used to provide a better than 99% match with the Easy Voice Biometrics software?
Zimmerman’s voice only produced a 48% match, conclusively eliminating his voice. A match of higher than 90 percent was expected, considering the quality of the audio.
Will you then say that Trayvon was screaming while assaulting Zimmerman?
Sorry, Zimmerman already said it was his voice screaming.
All these racists can say what they want about Trayvon being a gangsta wannabe. The fact is that they couldn’t find any trace of drugs in his system, he was never disciplined for any act of violence, and had his sights set on going to college.
How many of these racists from Fox can volunteer their kids or grand kids to be drug tested and come up as clean as Trayvon?
The rate at which white kids use drugs compared to black kids, I wouldn’t expect much show of hands.
Zimmerman, on the other hand, was fired from his job of being a bouncer for excessive violent behavior.
He intervened in an arrest, verbally abused and assaulted an officer, but somehow ended up with the charges being dropped.
Get a clue. This guy has someone looking out for him.
His father is a retired judge. Or magistrate. Really no difference. Whenever you are about to get out of jail, you see a magistrate/judge.