Cherie Townsend

Two Years Later, Black Mother Wrongfully Accused of Murdering White Woman in Rolling Hills Estates Still Fighting to Get Her Name and Car Back

Cherie Townsend and attorney forced to come out of coronavirus quarantine or have civil rights lawsuit dismissed It’s been nearly two years since mother of two, Cherie Townsend, was accosted at gunpoint by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and arrested for the May 3, 2018 murder of Susan Leeds.  At the time, Leed’s death led the local news and made national headlines because she was a white woman who was murdered in a wealthy Los Angeles County suburb. Then-Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell wasted no time in trying to pacify the residents of two cities that contracted his