Man who protested brother’s shooting by police fatally shot

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a southern Indiana man who helped organize recent protests to seek answers to his brother’s police-action shooting death has been fatally shot. Police say 29-year-old Tyler Williams was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds just before 11 p.m. Thursday night outside an apartment complex in New Albany. Police haven’t said whether a suspect has been arrested. The News and Tribune reports Williams helped organize several peaceful protests in southern Indiana calling for transparency in the death of his 27-year-old brother, Malcolm Williams. Malcolm Williams died April 29 fin an exchange of gunfire with an Indiana State Police trooper during a traffic stop in Jeffersonville.
