Pharrell Williams calls for investigation into the death of his cousin in a police-involved shooting

Pharrell Williams called on the state of Virginia to launch an investigation into the death of his cousin, who died in a police-involved shooting on Virginia Beach.

"I had to speak at my cousin’s funeral, and was choked up with emotions," he wrote in the post. "Too many unanswered City and State questions. Respectfully, I am calling for a Federal investigation. I also humbly ask that you all keep the family in prayer." Donovon Lynch, 25, was killed in the early morning hours of March 27 along the city’s popular oceanfront strip of hotels and restaurants shortly after two other nearby shootings unleashed chaos. Police said Lynch, a Black man, had a handgun and that it was recovered from the scene. But the officer’s body camera had not been activated. The officer who killed Lynch is also Black.