it seems the photo you decide to show ?
i spent all day yesterday doing everything i could to make this story into national news and was prepared this morning to come on and talk about how we needed to work harder to find nia ’s killer , but i am glad to report that at about 6 pm west coast time , john lee cowell , a brutal man with a history of violence across his entire life , was arrested and charged with nia ’s murder .
as you may know , on late sunday evening , while riding the train in oakland , a white man targeted two young black women on the train , without ever saying a word to them , and killed one – a beautiful young soul named nia wilson , an 18 year old high school student , and critically injured her sister – stabbing and slashing them both with a knife – then simply walking away .
and , as it viewers of local oakland news station ktvu are expressing outrage after the station used a photo of slain teen nia wilson holding what appears to be a gun during a broadcast about her murder .
what were they trying to convey ?
her sister was hospitalized overnight , and after a day - long manhunt , bart police arrested cowell on monday evening , according to sfgate .
so far , the stabbings have been characterized as “ random , ” though police have n’t eliminated the idea that the crime was racially motivated .
pic.twitter.commyq7p2gvbw — brotha b ( @blakedontcrack ) july 23 , 2018 everyone please call @ktvu and demand that they issue an apology for this shameful coverage , two young black women victims of white terrorism and this is how they choose to depict them ?
first , a local news station in the bay area shared an image of nia holding what looked like a gun .