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Black Lives Matter Activist Kills Himself on Steps of Ohio Statehouse

HeadlineFeb 10, 2016

A Black Lives Matter activist has shot himself to death at the entrance to the Ohio Statehouse. MarShawn McCarrel was 23 years old. He organized against the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and worked to aid the homeless, after he himself was homeless for three months. His last post on Twitter said he wanted to “let the record show” that he urinated on the Statehouse “before I left.”

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