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Mother of 14 time convicted thug killed by Fort Worth police says her son was ambushed
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Dec 7, 2016, 6:53:00 PM12/7/16
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He's black. What a surprise.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-
worth/twh4r/picture21034086/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/goldston1
BY DEANNA BOYD
AND LEE WILLIAMS
db...@star-telegram.com,
leewi...@star-telegram.com
The mother of a 30-year-old man fatally shot by Fort Worth
police said her son is being portrayed by police “as a menace to
society in order to convince Americans that his murder was
justifiable.”
In a statement released by Kyev Tatum of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, Regina Goldston said her son, Kelvin
Antonie Goldston, grew up as a “military brat” and “traveled the
world moving from city to city, country to country alongside me
to non-combat assignments.”
Regina Goldston is a retired Navy petty officer first class,
according to the statement that was emailed Saturday to the Star-
Telegram.
She wrote, “I served this country for 20 years, and I even
traveled to foreign soil to defend it but never in a million
years did I think the Fort Worth Police Department would ambush
my son and shoot him to death!”
On Monday, Fort Worth police were conducting surveillance on a
house in the 6000 block of Wheaton Drive for suspected drug
activity when they received information that Kelvin Goldston,
who had warrants out for his arrest, was inside.
Police officials have said Goldston had backed out of the
driveway onto the street when a marked patrol car pulled in
front of his pickup and an unmarked police vehicle behind it.
Two officers were approaching the pickup — a uniformed officer
from the front and a plainclothes narcotics officer from the
rear — when Goldston put the truck in reverse and accelerated
backward, officials say.
The truck struck the plainclothes officer, a 23-year veteran of
the department, as she tried to dive out of its path, causing
her minor injuries, officials said.
“The uniformed officer observed the truck accelerating towards
the narcotics officer and fired shots in an effort to stop the
suspect from running over the narcotics officer,” Sgt. Steve
Enright said in a new release the day of the shooting.
Goldston was struck multiple times. He was pronounced dead at
the scene from what the medical examiner would later rule was a
gunshot in the neck.
Past arrests
In a September traffic stop in Benbrook, Goldston fled from
Benbrook police — striking one officer with his pickup — after
suspected illegal drugs were found in his possession, according
to police affidavits.
Lab tests later confirmed that the drugs found by Benbrook
police were cocaine and ethylone, according to the documents
obtained by the Star-Telegram.
That encounter prompted Benbrook police to obtain four warrants
against Goldston — one for aggravated assault on a public
servant, one for evading arrest, and two for possession of a
controlled substance with intent to deliver.
Tarrant County court records show Goldston had 14 convictions
dating to 2006, including misdemeanor convictions for possession
of marijuana and burglary of a vehicle, and felony convictions
on charges including engaging in organized crime and credit card
abuse.
Goldston had been sentenced to five years’ deferred adjudication
probation in April 2014 on a charge of possession of a
controlled substance.
In November, prosecutors filed a petition to revoke Goldston’s
probation, accusing him of multiple violations of his conditions.
A warrant was later issued for his arrest, which was still
active at the time of Monday’s shooting.
‘A loving father’
Regina Goldston said her son “has been portrayed as thug, a drug
dealer, and a felon, all to justify another killing of a young
black man.”
She said he was a 2003 graduate of North Crowley High School,
had attended Weatherford College and was in business with her.
“Kelvin made friends everywhere he went, friends who loved and
respected him for the kind, loving, giving, funny, and lively
human being that he was,” she said in the statement. “… He was a
loving father to his two sons and other children that he co-
parented, son, brother and friend.”
The narcotics officers involved in the shooting remain on
routine administrative leave. Enright said the department will
not be releasing their names because of their narcotics
assignments, which include undercover work.
Enright did disclose that the officer who fired the shots has
been with the department for 101/2 years and has no disciplinary
record in his civil service file.
Tatum said the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is
calling on the White House to send a special team to Fort Worth
to investigate the shooting.
Deanna Boyd, 817-390-7655
Comments:
Erika Hill
This situation is different that young man had 14 different
felonies bottom line we have to teach our black boys better and
I say that cus my littlr sis knew him , our black men have to do
Better no shade just keeping it real
Reply · · 24 · May 15 at 7:11am
Rickey Kinney · Defensive Back at North Texas Stampede Minor
Professional Football Organization
14 convictions not 14 felonies
Reply · · 2 · May 15 at 11:34am
Erika Hill
Ok but still that's still to much also he got shot twice because
of his life style bt he still chose to live that lifestyle I
mean it comes a point where u have to take responsibility as a
man for some of the things that happen to you , life is to
precious to keep making bad decision
Reply · · 40 · May 15 at 11:40am
Paul Lemon · Owner at Home Court LLC Real Estate Investments
Erika I APPLAUD YOUR COMMENT.
Reply · · 12 · May 16 at 11:56am
View 5 more
Mark S Brey · Top Commenter · Technical Support at Orange
Business Services
Unfortunately when you live a life of crime, you run the risks
of it. He may have been loved by his mother who was blinded by
her love. But the past & his actions showed that he was a
CRIMINAL and unfortunately he lost his life because of it.
Reply · · 11 · May 16 at 9:46am
Jeff Parrack · Top Commenter · Columbia High School
His mother LOVED him? She had a hand in ruining his respect for
proper behavior. She raised him wrong.
Reply · · 5 · Edited · May 16 at 4:19pm
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-
worth/article21034092.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-
worth/twh4r/picture21034086/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/goldston1
BY DEANNA BOYD
AND LEE WILLIAMS
db...@star-telegram.com,
leewi...@star-telegram.com
The mother of a 30-year-old man fatally shot by Fort Worth
police said her son is being portrayed by police “as a menace to
society in order to convince Americans that his murder was
justifiable.”
In a statement released by Kyev Tatum of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, Regina Goldston said her son, Kelvin
Antonie Goldston, grew up as a “military brat” and “traveled the
world moving from city to city, country to country alongside me
to non-combat assignments.”
Regina Goldston is a retired Navy petty officer first class,
according to the statement that was emailed Saturday to the Star-
Telegram.
She wrote, “I served this country for 20 years, and I even
traveled to foreign soil to defend it but never in a million
years did I think the Fort Worth Police Department would ambush
my son and shoot him to death!”
On Monday, Fort Worth police were conducting surveillance on a
house in the 6000 block of Wheaton Drive for suspected drug
activity when they received information that Kelvin Goldston,
who had warrants out for his arrest, was inside.
Police officials have said Goldston had backed out of the
driveway onto the street when a marked patrol car pulled in
front of his pickup and an unmarked police vehicle behind it.
Two officers were approaching the pickup — a uniformed officer
from the front and a plainclothes narcotics officer from the
rear — when Goldston put the truck in reverse and accelerated
backward, officials say.
The truck struck the plainclothes officer, a 23-year veteran of
the department, as she tried to dive out of its path, causing
her minor injuries, officials said.
“The uniformed officer observed the truck accelerating towards
the narcotics officer and fired shots in an effort to stop the
suspect from running over the narcotics officer,” Sgt. Steve
Enright said in a new release the day of the shooting.
Goldston was struck multiple times. He was pronounced dead at
the scene from what the medical examiner would later rule was a
gunshot in the neck.
Past arrests
In a September traffic stop in Benbrook, Goldston fled from
Benbrook police — striking one officer with his pickup — after
suspected illegal drugs were found in his possession, according
to police affidavits.
Lab tests later confirmed that the drugs found by Benbrook
police were cocaine and ethylone, according to the documents
obtained by the Star-Telegram.
That encounter prompted Benbrook police to obtain four warrants
against Goldston — one for aggravated assault on a public
servant, one for evading arrest, and two for possession of a
controlled substance with intent to deliver.
Tarrant County court records show Goldston had 14 convictions
dating to 2006, including misdemeanor convictions for possession
of marijuana and burglary of a vehicle, and felony convictions
on charges including engaging in organized crime and credit card
abuse.
Goldston had been sentenced to five years’ deferred adjudication
probation in April 2014 on a charge of possession of a
controlled substance.
In November, prosecutors filed a petition to revoke Goldston’s
probation, accusing him of multiple violations of his conditions.
A warrant was later issued for his arrest, which was still
active at the time of Monday’s shooting.
‘A loving father’
Regina Goldston said her son “has been portrayed as thug, a drug
dealer, and a felon, all to justify another killing of a young
black man.”
She said he was a 2003 graduate of North Crowley High School,
had attended Weatherford College and was in business with her.
“Kelvin made friends everywhere he went, friends who loved and
respected him for the kind, loving, giving, funny, and lively
human being that he was,” she said in the statement. “… He was a
loving father to his two sons and other children that he co-
parented, son, brother and friend.”
The narcotics officers involved in the shooting remain on
routine administrative leave. Enright said the department will
not be releasing their names because of their narcotics
assignments, which include undercover work.
Enright did disclose that the officer who fired the shots has
been with the department for 101/2 years and has no disciplinary
record in his civil service file.
Tatum said the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is
calling on the White House to send a special team to Fort Worth
to investigate the shooting.
Deanna Boyd, 817-390-7655
Comments:
Erika Hill
This situation is different that young man had 14 different
felonies bottom line we have to teach our black boys better and
I say that cus my littlr sis knew him , our black men have to do
Better no shade just keeping it real
Reply · · 24 · May 15 at 7:11am
Rickey Kinney · Defensive Back at North Texas Stampede Minor
Professional Football Organization
14 convictions not 14 felonies
Reply · · 2 · May 15 at 11:34am
Erika Hill
Ok but still that's still to much also he got shot twice because
of his life style bt he still chose to live that lifestyle I
mean it comes a point where u have to take responsibility as a
man for some of the things that happen to you , life is to
precious to keep making bad decision
Reply · · 40 · May 15 at 11:40am
Paul Lemon · Owner at Home Court LLC Real Estate Investments
Erika I APPLAUD YOUR COMMENT.
Reply · · 12 · May 16 at 11:56am
View 5 more
Mark S Brey · Top Commenter · Technical Support at Orange
Business Services
Unfortunately when you live a life of crime, you run the risks
of it. He may have been loved by his mother who was blinded by
her love. But the past & his actions showed that he was a
CRIMINAL and unfortunately he lost his life because of it.
Reply · · 11 · May 16 at 9:46am
Jeff Parrack · Top Commenter · Columbia High School
His mother LOVED him? She had a hand in ruining his respect for
proper behavior. She raised him wrong.
Reply · · 5 · Edited · May 16 at 4:19pm
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worth/article21034092.html
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