Topic: Trent Benefield

NYPD cops settle Sean Bell case by retiring with pay

The Grio - 111 days ago
Nearly five years after an unarmed man died in a barrage of 50 police bullets following his bachelor party in Queens, two of the shooters faced a...

Kin of slain groom will attend NYPD proceedings

NY Daily News - 113 days ago
Sean Bell's family is expected at Police Headquarters Monday for the latest chapter in the explosive case: the first departmental trial for the...

Sean Bell case and Harlem melee share tragic ties

NY Daily News - 551 days ago
A weekend Harlem block party that ended in a spray of gunfire and the death of a Bronx man shared a series of loose connections with the infamous...

Sean Bell's death isn't a 'joke,' says dad

NY Daily News - 565 days ago
Sean Bell's dad lashed out Wednesday at a top police union official who called his dead son drunk - and suggested he brought on his own demise.....

NYC settles 50-bullet cop lawsuit for $7 million

AP News - 566 days ago
NYC to pay $7M to settle lawsuit in 50-bullet police shooting that killed unarmed groomNew York City has settled a lawsuit with the fiancee and friends of a man fatally gunned down in a 50-bullet police shooting for more than $7 million ...

Feds won't pursue NYPD shooting of man in 2006

AP News - 726 days ago
Federal prosecutors won't file civil rights charges in NYPD shooting of unarmed man in 2006 Three New York police officers who killed an unarmed man in a 50-shot barrage outside a seedy strip club hours before his wedding will not face ...

Benefield awaits another trial

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 919 days ago
The article reports that Trent Benefield, the main witness in the death case of African American Sean Bell, could face another trial for beating his 19-year-old fiancee Nyla Page-Walthrus. Benefield's attorney, Michael Hardy claimed that PageWalthrus had no physical evidence that ...