13-year-old black child killed because of a "prank"

Christopher Kapessa, a 13-year-old boy, allegedly "drowned" while playing. Officials have described the incident as an unpleasant freak occurrence. “It was a homicide,” Suresh Grover, director of the Monitoring Group, an anti-racism organization that is assisting Joseph, said CNN. According to Grover, authorities botched their original investigation into Kapessa's killing, interviewing only four out of more than a dozen witnesses.