Fact check: No, George Floyd's brother wasn't arrested in North Carolina
A post spreading on social media claims that one of George Floyd's siblings was recently charged with murder. "George Floyd's younger brother, Dejywan Floyd, has been arrested in North Carolina for a 'road rage' shooting of a white couple, killing the mother of six sitting in the passenger," reads the text above two images: one of a Black man and one of what looks like a white woman.
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Philonise Floyd said his big brother took care of him and his siblings and "was so much of a leader in the household." A post spreading on social media claims that one of his siblings was recently charged with murder.
"George Floyd’s younger brother, Dejywan Floyd, has been arrested in North Carolina for a ‘road rage’ shooting of a white couple, killing the mother of six sitting in the passenger," reads the text above two images: one of a Black man and one of what looks like a white woman.
A North Carolina man named Dejywan Floyd was recently charged with murder in the death of a woman who was killed after being shot while riding in the car her husband was driving. But we found nothing to support a claim spreading on social media that this person was a sibling of George Floyd.
Searching for Dejywan Floyd’s name and George Floyd’s name didn’t turn up any credible news reports or documents connecting the two men.
We reached out to civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who is representing Floyd’s family, but did not immediately receive a response.
"The family does not know him," he said in a text.
The Robeson County sheriff’s office, which is investigating the shooting in North Carolina, has "no information at all to confirm this is true," Sheriff Burnis Wilkins told PolitiFact.
"The last name Floyd is very common in our county and surrounding area," Wilkins said.
We rate this Facebook post False.
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