Before there was George Floyd or Jacob Blake, there was Alton Sterling: a black man from Baton Rouge who was shot by a police officer.
For those who don't remember, Alton Sterling was a felon with a firearm who was reportedly threatening people in the parking lot of a gas station in South Louisiana in 2016.
Alton Sterling was also a convicted sex offender and now his son may be following in dad's footsteps.
One of Alton Sterling's sons was indicted Wednesday on first-degree rape counts involving two 8-year-old boys.
Cameron Sterling, 20, of Baton Rouge, was first arrested in December 2018 and accused of raping one of the boys while he was babysitting the child earlier that month.
Another arrest warrant was filed last August that accused Sterling of sexually assaulting another boy in November 2018. That boy was staying at a friend's house where Sterling was present, the warrant states.
Because Sterling was 18 at the time of both alleged incidents, he would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted of first-degree rape.
A Baton Rouge state district judge had found Sterling incompetent to proceed with his case in February 2019, but another judge last August found him competent after he received treatment.
Sterling's father, Alton Sterling, 37, was shot to death in 2016 while two Baton Rouge police officers tried to arrest the elder Sterling outside a North Foster Drive convenience