The shooting death of Marchello Woodard by a state parole agent last month has caught the attention of a nationally known civil rights attorney, and he’s here in Erie to address the incident.

JET 24 reporter Jade Leah Burns was at Second Baptist Church on East 26th Street, where nationally known civil rights attorney Ben Crump held a news conference.

People were on their way into the church to hear what he and his team had to say.

Expected to join Crump are attorney Thomas Fitzpatrick and Brooke Cluse, along with the family of Marchello Woodard.

On Thursday, the family and their legal team demanded full accountability and an independent investigation into what they say was an avoidable use of deadly force on a black man.

Woodard, 43, was fatally shot by a state parole agent while alle

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