Kendrec McDade Remembered Saturday May 11

On May 11, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at Northside Park in Azusa, the friends and family of Kendrec McDade will observe what would have been his 21st birthday. Kendrec would have turned 21 on May 5, 2013.
On March 24, 2012, Kendrec was shot and killed by Pasadena police officers who claimed he was “reaching for his waistband.” He was unarmed. At the time of his death, Kendrec was a 19-year-old college student and star athlete who had never had any trouble with the law. He maintained good grades in high school and tutored neighborhood children in mathematics.
Kendrec was conscious long after two officers riddled him with bullets. Writhing in pain, he repeatedly asked the paramedics in the ambulance, “Why did they shoot me?” Kendrec’s family has filed a wrongful death civil rights lawsuit against the officers who shot him as well as the City of Pasadena.
At the observance this Saturday, Kendrec’s friends and family will be available to answer questions from the press regarding the continuing sense of shock and loss felt by everyone who knew him. In attendance will be Kendrec’s mother, Anya Slaughter, as well as Kendrec’s high school friends and close relatives. Ms. Slaughter had promised her son that she would take him to Las Vegas for his 21st birthday, so the observance will be “casino” themed.
Ms. Slaughter is represented in her civil rights lawsuit by the Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo. Ms. Slaughter’s attorneys Dale K. Galipo and Thomas C. Seabaugh will attend and make a brief statement regarding the progress of the civil rights case.
Photographs enclosed. Contact: Thomas C. Seabaugh, Esq., The Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo, tseabaugh@galipolaw.com, (818) 347-3333. Photographs enclosed.

Kendrec McDade with his mother, Anya Slaughter, on prom night. Courtesy Photo

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