The group also wants to have a fund-raising drive to increase the $6,000reward that has been posted for information in thekillings, the Rev. H.B. Pickett Jr., president of the Raleigh-Apex branch,toldThe News & Observerof Raleigh.
Raleigh's police chief, Mitch Brown, has said his department alreadyhasa major crimes task force and doesn't need a special task force. WakeCounty District Attorney Colon Willoughby has said that police andprosecutors have spents months looking into possible connections betweenthe slayings of poor, black women in Raleigh. But so far investigatorshave found no evidence that slayings are related.
The most recent body was found Dec. 26 in a warehouse at North and Weststreets on the western edge of downtown. Police have said four of the sixwomen were prostitutes and all six had been involved in street-level drug trade.
Police in Charlotte set up a task force last year to lookfor connections in its homicides and missing persons cases. That force iscomposed of police detectives and SBI agents.
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