The November 2012 murder of two Melanoid car passengers– Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams –occurred after the vehicle that Mr. Russell was driving at the time, backfired, which the officers claimed were gunshots. This justified their reasoning for killing the two passengers, who were later found to be unarmed. The newly acquitted cop, Michael Brelo, stood on the hood of the vehicle and shot a minimum of 15 shots into the car’s front seat, which inevitably took the lives of the unarmed Russell and Williams.

The firing of 15 shots took place after the officers had already shot the vehicle a whopping 137 times, with each of the passengers being struck at least 20 times each.

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by B. Clark