The Shooting of Rabbit Wells: A White Cop, a Young Man of Color, and an American Tragedy; with a New Introduction by the Author

What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? This moving account is more timely than ever.

On a frigid winter’s night in 1973, William “Rabbit” Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by a white policeman named William Sorgie outside a bar in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The shooting, later ruled an accident, stunned local residents and the nation.

For thirty years, author William Loizeaux, who went to high school with Rabbit, hasn’t been able to forget wha...