State and federal law enforcement agents are investigating the hanging death of a 43-year-old Black man whose body was found Monday morning outside a home about 70 miles east of Atlanta in Greene County, Georgia, reports the Huffington Post. The man, Roosevelt Champion III, was found hanging from a tree behind a residence that was […]
Authorities have yet to confirm if a missing man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last week was killed or committed suicide, but the FBI is now consulting with the Behavioral Analysis Unit (or “profilers”) to break the case. Otis Byrd, 54, was found with a sheet around his neck near his Port Gibson […]
A black man, recently found hanging from a tree, doesn’t appear to have stepped off of anything before he died, according to a Mississippi sherriff. Previously reported as a possible suicide, the death of 54-year old Otis Byrd is now being investigated as a possible lynching. Last seen leaving a casino, Byrd was found last Thursday […]
