Shaker Grad Wins a Pulitzer Prize
Shaker Heights High School graduate, Wesley Lowery, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on April 18, 2016. Lowery, only 25, was part of a team from the Washington Post that was awarded a Pulitzer in the national reporting category. After learning that there were no official statistics about fatal shootings by police officers, Lowery and his team created a database called “Fatal Force.” The information analyzed patterns in law enforcement and detailed fatal shootings by police officers. The database is based on news reports, public records, social media and other sources and reveals the details of 990 fatal police shootings across the nation in 2015. Lowery compiles this information and presents it clearly and simply enough that even my 5th grader was impacted by the details of his findings.
To learn more about Lowery’s project, visit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/.
