She had moved to the school in February 2004, after spending a year at Merrill College in Derby when she was living in Alvaston in the city with her father Dale Beccan. 'Bright and intelligent'ĭanielle lived in St Ann's with her mother Paula Platt, and was a pupil at Elliott Durham School. We are seeing a positive impact on levels of knife crime locally now, which is thanks to the proactive work we do throughout the year alongside our partners and the community who all share our commitment to keep Nottinghamshire safe.”īelow is the story of what happened to Danielle - and how her legacy continues to this day. “This doesn’t however mean that we are complacent. This is testament to a number of factors, including a sustained period of proactive and intelligence-led policing which has enabled us to disrupt criminal activity and take a significant number of dangerous weapons off our streets before they have the opportunity to cause harm. “However, to reassure people, as a county we are in a very different place 15 years on in terms of gun crime. Meanwhile Assistant Chief Constable Kate Meynell from Nottinghamshire Police said: “Danielle’s murder was and still is shocking, especially as she was an innocent bystander and so very young. But we have a huge knife crime problem now." "A huge amount of work was done around guns. "I think the gun issue is better," she said.
Has that happened? Nina Dauban of Nottinghamshire Community Foundation - which still gives out money from the Danielle Beccan Memorial Fund - said it had, to a certain extent. There was a sense at the time that this was the moment which showed just how appalling the gang problems in the city really were, and how much needed to be done to bring about real change. Those who killed her had gone to St Ann's simply to target people from the area.Īnd the group they happened to come across that night was Danielle and her friends coming home from the fair just after midnight. This week marks 15 years since the shocking events of the early hours of October 9, 2004, when 14-year-old Danielle was shot as she walked home from Goose Fair. Nottingham holds a Master of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Science in Speech Communication from Syracuse University.Of all the crimes in Nottingham in the early years of the 21st century, when guns and gangs seemed to have taken over the city, there was surely none more shocking - and inexplicable - than the murder of Danielle Beccan. Nottingham began her career at WXST-FM in Charleston, S.C., as a co-host for “Morning Drive” and was named a 2005 Distinguished Woman of the New Millennium in Media. Prior to that, she was the morning anchor for “Good Morning Charleston” at WCIV-TV, where she received the South Carolina AP Award for Education Reporting. Previously, Nottingham served as the weekend anchor at WDJT-TV in Milwaukee, Wis., anchoring the weekend newscasts as well as serving as the primary fill-in anchor for the weekday evening news. She also served as a fill-in anchor for the weekday morning and evening newscasts. She will be based in Washington, D.C.īefore joining CBS, Nottingham was the weekend morning anchor at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pa., where she was the solo anchor of the Saturday and Sunday newscasts.
Her appointment is effective immediately. Nottingham will report for CBS Newspath, the network’s 24-hour television news service to CBS stations and broadcasters throughout the world. Danielle Nottingham has been named a Correspondent for CBS Newspath in an announcement made today by John Frazee, Senior Vice President of News Services.