(CNN) A Black Lives Matter activist who rose to prominence after the South Carolina State House Confederate flag controversy was killed in New Orleans while riding his bike late at night, police said. The incident report doesn't say whether the cameras captured anything useful to investigators, but they did collect the bullet, a hat and DNA evidence at the scene. An attorney for the police department said that the incident report citing aggravated battery was the only one available, and that "the signal was recently changed to a homicide." The suspect is an unknown stranger, according to the incident report. "Go well, knowing that the work you've done speaks for you," Charleston activist Leah Suarez posted on Instagram.

Source: CNN February 07, 2018 18:47 UTC