Veronza Bowers Jr.
Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr. (born February 4, 1946) is a former member of the Black Panther Party. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted by a jury on the charge of first degree murder of U.S. park ranger Kenneth Patrick at Point Reyes National Seashore in 1973. According to a 1976 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal opinion affirming the denial of a motion to suppress evidence obtained with a search warrant at a residence, the evidence against Bowers included physical evidence connecting him to the scene of the crime. The primary evidence also included the eye-witness testimony from a co-defendant who stated he was one of two other people in the car when Bowers shot Ranger Patrick when Ranger Patrick approached the car on suspicion the occupants were deer poaching. The facts of the original case were summarized in a 2011 Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals opinion dealing with parole matters. He was incarcerated at a federal correctional institution in North Carolina. He was released on May 7, 2024.
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