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High Point March Planned After No Charges Filed In Fred Cox Case

Ben Crump, right, the civil rights attorney representing the family of George Floyd, joined at left by Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, speaks to reporters about police reform legislation, at the Capitol in Washington in May. Crump is one of the organizer's of Saturday's march in High Point. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP

A march demanding justice for slain High Point teenager Fred Cox is scheduled for Saturday.

It will begin at the High Point City Hall and end at the courthouse. Among the organizers are Rev. Greg Drumwright and nationally known civil rights attorney Ben Crump — who also worked with George Floyd's family.

The protest comes weeks after a decision not to charge a Davidson County detective in connection with Cox's death.

Cox, an 18-year-old Black man, died after gunfire erupted following a November funeral in High Point. The detective was at the service as part of an investigation into a homicide in Davidson County.

Cox's supporters say he was shot while trying to usher people to safety. The Guilford County District Attorney's Office says there's no evidence that Cox fired a weapon.

A grand jury decided there wasn't sufficient evidence to support either of the criminal charges presented by prosecutors over Cox's shooting — voluntary manslaughter or felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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