This is a Feb. 24, 2010 photograph released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections of Vincent McGee of Pearl, Miss., who is charged with the murder of Richard Barrett, a white supremacist lawyer who was found stabbed to death in his burning house in Rankin County near Pearl, Miss., Thursday, April 22, 2010. Barrett, a New York City native and Vietnam War veteran, moved to Mississippi in 1966, and soon after, he began traveling the country to promote anti-black and anti-immigrant views, and founded a supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement. McGee has been arrested and taken to the Rankin County jail in Brandon. As a MDOC inmate McGee was out of prison on earned release supervision granted in February, 2010. He lived with family in a home several houses down the block from Barrett.
FILE - In this July 31, 2008 file photo, Richard Barrett, a 65-year-old attorney and Nationalist Movement leader, tells The Associated Press during an interview in his Pearl, Mississippi, home, that he's convinced Democratic Barack Obama will win in November, and could set off a white backlash. Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington says Richard Barrett's body was found early Thursday April 22, 2010, after residents reported seeing smoke coming from his house near a suburb of Jackson, Miss. The 67-year-old Barrett had traveled the U.S. to promote anti-black and anti-immigrant views. He founded a supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement