Report: Activist kills self outside Ohio Statehouse
Columbus, OHIO -- A prominent activist associated with the Black Lives Matter movement killed himself in front of the Ohio Statehouse on Monday evening, reports the Columbus Dispatch.
MarShawn McCarrel II, 23, shot himself just after 6 p.m., near the building's entrance, according to the paper. McCarrel organized protests in Ohio after teen Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in 2014.
He later founded a youth mentorship program called Pursuing Our Dreams, reports the New York Daily News.
McCarrel, who attended the NAACP Image Awards on Feb. 5, posted ominous messages to Facebook and Twitter hours before his death.
"My demons won today. I'm sorry," he wrote on Facebook.
Minutes later he posted his final tweet.
"Let the record show that I pissed on the state house before I left," he wrote.
State police told the Columbus Dispatch that there were no witnesses to McCarrel's death.