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Warren Kimbro, Ex-Panther Who Turned to Life of Service After Killing, Dies at 74

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Warren Kimbro, Ex-Panther Who Turned to Life of Service After Killing, Dies at 74 By BRUCE WEBER Published: February 5, 2009 NY Times Warren Kimbro, who as a fledgling member of the Black Panther Party shot and killed a suspected police informer in New Haven in 1969, prompting a series of trials that made national headlines, but who later earned a Harvard degree and became a respected community leader, died in New Haven on Tuesday. He was 74 and lived in Hamden, Conn. The cause had not been determined, said his son, Germano. Warren Kimbro had been taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital on Tuesday complaining of chest pains, said Paul Bass, editor of The New Haven Independent, an online news site. Mr. Kimbro?s story involves an instantaneous tumble from grace and a long climb to regain it...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).