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Death of ex-state NAACP president ruled a suicide

PRE News & Ideas | By Kelly Batchelor
Published February 15, 2023 at 10:32 AM EST
FILE - The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, then-president of the North Carolina NAACP, crumples up a mailer which tells voters that IDs are needed in the upcoming 2020 election during a news conference outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 27, 2019. The civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide after being found in his Greensboro home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound last summer, according to an autopsy released Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023.
(Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP, File)
FILE - The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, then-president of the North Carolina NAACP, crumples up a mailer which tells voters that IDs are needed in the upcoming 2020 election during a news conference outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 27, 2019. The civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide after being found in his Greensboro home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound last summer, according to an autopsy released Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023.

Autopsy results show that a former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide.

The autopsy report and other documents related to the death of the Rev. T. Anthony Spearman were released yesterday (Tue).

The 71-year-old was found dead last July inside his home in Greensboro.

Spearman’s death had drawn widespread attention. But few details about his death had been released.
Kelly Batchelor
Kelly Batchelor hails from the small crossroads community of Cabin in Duplin County in Eastern North Carolina. Since 1989 Kelly has been actively employed in radio.
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