BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – The mother of a black man who was shot and killed by police in his car said he had called her moments earlier. The mother, Katie Wright, said her son told her over his phone that he had been stopped by police. He asked her to bring insurance papers for his car, which she recently had given him, she said. “A minute later, I called and his girlfriend answered, which was the passenger in the car, and said that he’d been shot and she put it on the driver’s side, and he was laying there lifeless,” the mother said. When the mother arrived, at near the 6300 block of Orchard Avenue, her son, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, was dead. Police said they had attempted resuscitation, but it failed. The shooting occurred shortly before 2 p.m.
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