Two charged with killing officer in 1969 race riot

Two black men were charged with killing a white police officer who was fatally wounded as he rode in an armoured car during a 10-day race riot in York, Pennsylvania, in 1969.

The arrests of Stephen Freeland, 49, and Leon Wright, 53, came five months after prosecutors charged nine white men with the murder of a black woman during the same riots 32 years ago.

Freeland and Wright were charged yesterday with first- and second-degree murder in the July 18, 1969, shooting of rookie Officer Henry Schaad and ordered held without bail. Neither entered a plea.