Biography
Warren Kimbro was the New Haven Black Panther in whose apartment Alex Rackley was held, and who fired the first shot in Rackley's killing on the order of George Sams. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and testified for the state, receiving a mandatory life sentence of which he served about four years. Granted educational parole in 1972, he earned a master's degree at Harvard and spent decades running a New Haven nonprofit helping formerly incarcerated people; a New Haven reentry program is named in his honor. He died in 2009.
The Black Panther, June 7, 1969: Printed page 8 individually names this defendant in the New Haven raid and prints captioned portraits of eight defendants. Theodore Spurlock reports the office and upstairs apartment entered at 1:05 Thursday morning, with breakfast-program money and other property taken, and initial murder/conspiracy accusations. Printed page 11 describes the eight as held without bail. These are contemporary Party reports and allegations; no final verdict or complete custody duration is established here. Printed variants include Erica Huggins, Rose Smith, Francis Carter and Peggy Hudgins; established profile identities are retained. Source: https://washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1969-06-07-black-panther-vol-3-no-7.pdf#page=7
The COINTELPRO Papers dates Kimbro’s guilty plea to second-degree murder to January 16, 1970. His later life sentence is a separate event.
