Fifteen years after her son was shot and killed by a BART police officer at the Fruitvale station, Oscar Grant’s mother finally got his cellphones back from the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday. 

At a press conference in her Oakland office, District Attorney Pamela Price handed over two phones to the Rev. Wanda Johnson, who seemed to get emotional as she thanked Price for returning her son’s property.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.