10 Facts About Bunchy Carter

Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter was an American activist.

Bunchy Carter was shot and killed by a rival group, Ron Karenga's "Us", and is celebrated by his supporters as a martyr in the Black Power movement in the United States.

Bunchy Carter is portrayed by Gaius Charles in the 2015 TV series Aquarius.

Bunchy Carter was eventually convicted of armed robbery and was imprisoned in Soledad prison for four years.

In early 1968, Bunchy Carter formed the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party and became a leader in the group.

Former BPP deputy minister of defense Geronimo Pratt, Bunchy Carter's head of security at the time, later stated that rather than a conspiracy, the UCLA incident was a spontaneous shootout.

Bunchy Carter surrendered in 1994 in order to try to negotiate help for his family suffering from turmoil in Suriname.

Bunchy Carter was immediately returned to San Quentin to serve out his life sentence.

Bunchy Carter's children remained in precarious and impoverished circumstances for eleven years, until they were able to come to the US in 2005.

Bunchy Carter had a son who was born in April 1969, after Carter was murdered.