THEIR STORY

Terron Jamaal Boone was the half brother of Robert Fuller, a young Black man found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California a few weeks prior. Boone was killed during an alleged shootout with police in Kern County. Shellondra Thomas who was driving the car that Boone was in was also shot and taken to a nearby hospital, and a 7-year-old, who was not injured, was sitting in the backseat of the car. Thomas has filed a legal claim against the county seeking unspecified damages for negligence, battery and a violation of her civil rights. Through her attorney, she alleged that sheriff’s detectives used flawed, shortsighted tactics that turned a volatile situation deadly.