I had not seen that story.

Looking for other news coverage, I found this post on Essence, which connects it to other deaths.

Jones' death has once again stirred conversation around various other activists in Ferguson who have died since 2014 under seemingly suspicious circumstances.

In 2014, Deandre Joshua, 20, was found shot once in the head, and then set on fire inside his car the same day a grand jury refused to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Prominent Ferguson activist Darren Seals was also found dead inside of a burning car back in 2016. He had also been shot. And then there was the 2017 death of Edward Crawford, the activist captured in the iconic photo tossing a canister of tear gas away from those protesting Brown's death. Police claimed that he died of a "self-inflicted" wound while in the back seat of his own car.

That's unbelievably depressing.

Yeah, that was mentioned in the link. I didn't know what tone to strike between incredulity and horror so I punted.

I don't know why the mainstream press isn't touching this, but that's the only thing that calls its credibility into question. There's a local pattern established and everything. Here is a very brief NBC report on the Ferguson police department in 2017.

Okayplayer is a pretty prominent hip-hop community site, started (I believe) by the Roots. It's not the New Yorker, but it's also not 8chan or Crazy Ivan's House of Entirely Fake News.

The prefer to be called "Fox Business."

The Washington Post has the story in the OP now.

AP picked it up - which is where I assume wapo did.

The WaPo article certainly makes it look like suicide is more likely. It was in their own *back*yard and was inititially reported by someone in the family as a suicide.

His mother deleting the tweet and being silent thereafter sounds consistent with an initially misidentified suicide. I hope there's a proper investigation but I'm okay with the media not jumping all over it until there's a result (or a clear lack-of-result they can look into).

9: Also consistent with not wanting to be the next victim.

The mother has repeated her belief to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.