This story sounds pretty typical of black-white relations. We have a hard-working white woman who does a business deal with a charming black guy who does not pay her, lies, and then kills her.<\/p>\n
From The Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n Ambition brought Carrie Jean Melvin to Hollywood, where she chased a career in entertainment between waitressing and working odd jobs.<\/p>\n Unlike so many with similar dreams of stardom, Melvin had a side gig that police say led to her death.<\/p>\n On a Sunday night in early July, as Melvin, 30, walked toward a restaurant near Sunset Boulevard with her boyfriend, someone walked up behind them, aimed a shotgun at her head and pulled the trigger. The gunman fled in a black sedan, police said.<\/p>\n Following weeks of investigative work, Los Angeles police on Friday arrested the man who they say fired the shot: Ezeoma Obioha.<\/p>\n A onetime security guard with a fledgling clothing line and civic ties, Obioha, 31, had contracted with Melvin’s newly launched social media company to market his business, LAPD Lt. John Radke said. A dispute erupted when Obioha wrote her a check that bounced and she threatened to take him to court, authorities said. She never received the several hundred dollars she was owed, police said.<\/p>\n “I’m thankful that he was apprehended and arrested, but we can’t celebrate,” her father, Bernie Melvin, said Saturday. “This was a violent, senseless, meaningless act.”<\/p>\n Her father said he knew his only daughter was dealing with a client who had written a bad check. The ordeal strained her finances and forced her to add waitressing shifts. She couldn’t celebrate her father’s birthday in mid-June or visit her parents’ home in Morro Bay for Father’s Day, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This story sounds pretty typical of black-white relations. We have a hard-working white woman who does a business deal with a charming black guy who does not pay her, lies, and then kills her. From The Los Angeles Times: Ambition … Continue reading