Man Killed By Police On L.A.'s Skid Row Had Studied Physics, Wanted to Be Actor

Man Killed By Police On L.A.'s Skid Row Had Studied Physics, Wanted to Be Actor
Members of Stop Mass Incarceration Network and other civil rights advocates protest at the skid row site where a homeless man known as 'Africa' was controversially shot dead by policein Los Angeles, California on March 7, 2015. Protestors later staged the demonstration outside LAPD headquarters over the killing, where Police Chief Charlie Beck is under intense pressure from the shooting -- just the latest to put police tactics in the United States under the spotlight. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Members of Stop Mass Incarceration Network and other civil rights advocates protest at the skid row site where a homeless man known as 'Africa' was controversially shot dead by policein Los Angeles, California on March 7, 2015. Protestors later staged the demonstration outside LAPD headquarters over the killing, where Police Chief Charlie Beck is under intense pressure from the shooting -- just the latest to put police tactics in the United States under the spotlight. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

Heleine Tchayou was watching television in her Malden, Mass., home when video appeared of Los Angeles police shooting and killing an unarmed, homeless man on skid row.

It wasn't until his photograph was released that Tchayou realized the man who lay dying on the pavement 2,900 miles away was her son, a family friend said.

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