Civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins was among the 64 passengers and crew on the American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., that plunged into the Potomac River Wednesday evening after colliding with a military helicopter.

A civil rights attorney and incoming Howard University law professor is among the dead after a midair collision between a passenger jet with a military helicopter killed 67 people on Wednesday evening.

Kiah Duggins, a soon-to-be Howard University law professor, died in the mid-air crash near Reagan National Airport. Details emerge.