Freddie Gray Coverage Nets 3 Pulitzer Nods

Coverage of the riots in Baltimore yielded three Pulitzer finalists this year.

For coverage of the April 2015 riots that erupted after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, The Baltimore Sun was named a finalist in the breaking news category.

Four photographers for Getty Images were finalists in the breaking news photography category "for intimate photographs that placed viewers in the streets of Baltimore during protests over the death of Freddie Gray," according to information provided by the Pulitzer board.

In addition, four Baltimore Sun writers were finalists in the editorial writing category for their "editorials that demanded accountability in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray while also offering guidance to a troubled city," a statement from the Pulitzer board said.

Gray, a 25-year-old Baltimore man who was arrested April 12, 2015, died a week later from an injury that prosecutors allege he sustained in a police van.

After Gray’s funeral in late April, riots erupted in parts of Baltimore, requiring the National Guard to help quell the unrest.

Six officers are facing trials in connection with Gray's death, starting in May. An officer who stood trial in December will be retried in June after a hung jury led the judge to declare a mistrial.

The announcement of the Pulitzer awards and finalists came on Monday, April 18, one day before the anniversary of Gray's death.

Pictured, National Guard in front of Baltimore City Hall on May 2, 2015. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Janney.