Posted on 03/20/2015 7:58:11 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
An FBI agent appealed for patience Friday after a black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, saying 30 federal, state and local agents were working intensively to determine whether he was killed or committed suicide.
"Everybody wants answers and wants them quickly. We understand that," FBI Special Agent Don Alway told a crowd outside the Claiborne County Courthouse. "We are going to hold off on coming to any conclusions until the facts take us to a definitive answer."
The county coroner confirmed that the man found hanging from a white sheet Thursday was Otis Byrd, an ex-convict reported missing by his family more than two weeks ago. Byrd lived just 200 yards from the spot where his body was found, in a wooded area off a dirt road that ran behind his house.
Alway said investigators are interviewing Byrd's family and friends and searching his rental home and a storage unit for clues, and will not reveal any evidence along the way.
"We are trying to paint a picture of Byrd's life. We are trying to find out what was going on with him personally and professionally," he said.
Claiborne County Sheriff Marvin Lucas Sr. told The Associated Press earlier Friday that Byrd did not appear to have stepped off of anything in the area where he was found hanging from a tree limb about 12 feet high. His feet were dangling about two feet off the ground, and his hands were not bound, Lucas said.
"Life matters," Lucas told the crowd. "I commit to you, as the sheriff of Claiborne County, that I will not allow the shadows of the past to cast a shadow on the future."
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“Hangs up....don’t sheet!”
Now that was indeed a funny. LMAO!
(Maybe its just log cabin syndrome.)
I bet you are right.
How about they concern themselves with a real “hate crime”...the burning of a young girl set on fire and died...oh $hit...I forgot, she was white!! Nothing to see here, move along to the lives that really matter - #whovotes4obama
This story went viral on Main stream media while the story of the 94 year old killed by multiple gunshot wound by 4 youths of a different culture in Mississippia never made it to the MSM. Wonder why? (wink wink, nod, nod,)
It's your exquisite taste and comprehension in recognizing magnificent punnery, LOL.
Leni
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