There are 9 article(s) tagged RowVaughn Wells:

• January 2025

  • Marchers call for justice, hold vigil in the cold for Tyre Nichols

    Groups huddled in the cold in view of the police Skycam that caught much of the grisly action on Castlegate Lane in Southeast Memphis on Jan. 7, 2023.

    By Jane Roberts January 08, 2025

• August 2024

  • Tyre Nichols’ son must be represented in civil suit, judge says

    A federal judge ruled Friday that Tyre Nichols’ young son must be represented by someone besides his grandmother RowVaughn Wells’ attorneys in the civil rights lawsuit against the City of Memphis. 

    By Samuel Hardiman August 02, 2024

• March 2024

  • MPD’s Davis, other top brass could be deposed in Nichols’ lawsuit

    Attorneys for RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mother, filed their initial discovery disclosure Thursday, March 28, detailing the 90-plus people who could be deposed during the ongoing civil rights lawsuit. 

    By Samuel Hardiman March 29, 2024

  • Tyre Nichols’ parents furious after meeting with state Sen. Brent Taylor

    The Wells family released a letter Friday pleading with Gov. Bill Lee to meet with them before he signs the bill into law, appealing to the promise he made to them in 2023.

    By Ben Wheeler March 15, 2024

  • Tyre Nichols’ parents ask for meeting with Gov. Bill Lee

    Tyre Nichols’ parents have released a letter asking to sit down with Gov. Bill Lee before he signs a bill that would ban traffic stop ordinances like the one passed by the Memphis City Council.

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    Tyre Nichols’ parents furious after meeting with state Sen. Brent Taylor

    By Ben Wheeler March 15, 2024

  • State House passes bill to stop bans on traffic stops

    It happened amid Tyre Nichols' family and local Democratic lawmakers accusing the bill’s sponsor of deceit.

    By Julia Baker March 07, 2024

• January 2024

  • Seeking peace a year after Tyre Nichols’ death

    If Memphis has healed – or if it has at least scarred in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death – it is because of RowVaughn Wells, said J. Lawrence Turner, pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church.

    By Samuel Hardiman January 11, 2024

• April 2023

  • Tyre Nichols’ family to sue City of Memphis

    The family of Tyre Nichols, the man who died after an encounter with Memphis police officers, will file a lawsuit this week against the City of Memphis.

    By Samuel Hardiman April 17, 2023

  • RowVaughn Wells, mother of Tyre Nichols, named to Time 100 list

    “Losing a child is the worst kind of pain that a parent could know, but RowVaughn has continued to demonstrate strength and assert her voice to ensure that her son’s story is not forgotten,” Ben Crump, the Wells family’s attorney, wrote for Time magazine.

    By Aarron Fleming, Julia Baker April 13, 2023