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https://thedailykenn.blogspot.com/2023/05/dailykenn_77.html DailyKenn.com — 61-year-old Anthony Watts was fatally shot when stop to help an assumed stranded motorcyclist in Jackson, Mississippi. Arrested was 22-year-old Dylan Arrington who, himself, was fatally shot in a standoff with police. Reports say Arrington was one of four detainees who escaped from the Raymond Detention Center. Watts was the head pastor of St. Mary’s Missionary Baptist Church in D’Lo, Mississippi. Watts stopped to assist Arrington, thinking he had crashed his motorcycle. Arrington reportedly stole Watts' truck. While white-on-black homicides are rare, but when they are reported, the media is often careful to note the races of the alleged white offender and the black victim. According to wlbt.com: "Once on the scene, officers found a Black man lying face up in the road. "Upon further investigation, it was revealed the man, identified as 61-year-old Anthony Watts, pulled over on the side of the road to help a white man who appeared to have wrecked a motorcycle that he had stolen moments earlier." Note that Black is capitalized while white begins with a lowercase letter. This is in keeping with the AP Stylebook which explains, "AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. The lowercase black is a color, not a person. AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses."