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NAACP urges justice for pharmacist Jerome Ersland in Oklahoma City fatal shooting

 
By The Associated Press | Published: May 29, 2009   

The NAACP says Oklahoma County's prosecutor did the right thing by charging a pharmacist with murder in the shooting death of a teenaged would-be robber.

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Officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a news conference Friday to discuss the first-degree murder charge against Jerome Ersland.

District Attorney David Prater says Ersland was justified in shooting 16-year-old Antwun Parker in the head during the robbery attempt. But Prater says Ersland went too far when he shot Parker five more times as he lay unarmed and unconscious.

Parker was black, Ersland is white.

State NAACP president Anthony Douglas says the judicial system should be allowed to run its course and the organization won't take sides on Ersland's guilt or innocence.

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