The murderers of a Tennessee teenager who lost his life heroically shielding a girl from gunfire have been sentenced to more than 300 years in prison, a report says.
On December 20 President Obama politicized the heroic sacrifice of Zaevion Dobson by suggesting Dobson’s decision to use his own body to shield three girls from gunfire ought to be an impetus for Congress to pass more gun control for law-abiding citizens.
Weeks after gang members in Chicago lured 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee into an alley and slaughtered him, a community near Knoxville Tennessee is mourning Zeavion Dobson, who jumped in front of a barrage of bullets, saving three of his friends in the process.
Tweets have poured in from California to England to Germany in honor of 15-year-old Fulton High School student and football player Zaevion Dobson who shielded three girls as gang members fired into a crowd of children. But there has been no mention of Dobson’s death from Deray McKesson, a prominent leader of Black Lives Matter and one of the movement’s social media figureheads.
A 15-year-old high school football player in Atlanta was killed at a party this week when he jumped on top of some girls to shield them from gunfire that erupted, police say.
A high school football player died while shielding three girls from gunfire during a random shooting in Knoxville, Tennessee.