Posted on 09/18/2025 7:00:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The death of a 21-year-old Black student discovered hanging from a tree at Delta State University in Mississippi has been ruled a suicide, police said Thursday.
The body of the student, identified as Demartravion "Trey" Reed, was discovered by a faculty member around 7 a.m. on Monday hanging from a tree near the pickleball courts on the Cleveland, Mississippi, campus, according to the campus police department.
The Mississippi State Medical Examiner's autopsy findings are "consistent with the initial investigation, determining the cause of death to be hanging and the manner of death as suicide," the Cleveland Police Department said in a press release on Thursday.
The school's president acknowledged this week that the incident has stoked tensions on campus and stirred up memories of the racist violence of the state's Jim Crow-era history.
"I want to begin by acknowledging that the manner how Trey was discovered has stirred many emotions in this community and many emotions around the state and the nation," Delta State President Dan Ennis said at Wednesday's news conference.
The NAACP released a statement, expressing "skepticism" in the preliminary findings of the police investigation.
"The body of 21-year-old Trey Reed was found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University. While initial reports offered no evidence of 'foul play,' you'd have to excuse our skepticism amidst growing racially motivated violence targeted at our communities across this nation," the NAACP said on Wednesday. "So while we await more formal autopsy reports and information, we offer this piece of history with a level of certainty: Our people have not historically hung ourselves from trees..."
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His family claimed he was lynched (broken legs) and were about to make millions from it.
R.I.P.
So, are they blaming white supremacists for him wanting to commit suicide? You know Biden and Obama would go there.
Ugh. That poor man.
If the rope was white, then it was obviously a racist suicide. /S
it funny- not this young man’s death- but i caught a piece of that schmuck Don Lemon interviewing people in DC about Kimmell being fired and two white woman were wailing how horrible it was, and one of them yelled, “they lynched TWO black boys in Mississippi and the media’s not covering it”....
I figured by the weekend they’d be up to a half dozen lynchings...
Are they sure Bubba Wallace wasn’t around?
Leftist white womwn should be in assylums
There was a similar death about a hundred miles away, also a suspected suicide. It appears to be an unfortunate coincidence, and the concerns aren’t unexpected.
There was a second suicide hanging outdoors, but he was white, so little mention of him.
I’m so sorry for his family. Heartbreaking. RIP.
The school’s president acknowledged this week that the incident has stoked tensions on campus....
No, the school, the parents, the crump and all the professional agitators stoked tensions.
Same thing, same time, different races, one is in the news.
“All eyes are in Mississippi this week after two men were found dead, hanging from trees on Monday, Sept. 15, just hours apart.”
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/09/18/2-mississippi-men-found-dead-hanging-from-trees-delta-state-univeristy-vicksburg-what-we-know/86217264007/
One of those found hanged was a homeless white drug addict. So there goes that theory.
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That is horrible to lose a son by suicide. The rumor control is he might have been homosexual.
But now the family is under enormous pressure by the usual suspects to turn it into a fake racial incident. That’s pretty vile, but that’s what they do.
So he lost a pickleball match and couldn't take the humiliation so he offed himself?
Even with suicide, blacks trying to frame whitey!!
Newsflash - Race hustlers disappointed with hanging outcome
“amidst growing racially motivated violence targeted at our communities across this nation,”
REALLY NAACP!? Where are,the reports of white people shooting up black neighborhoods? I can find thousands of black and black violence in the hood. I can’t find any of white people perpetrating violence against black neighborhoods.
Liars. The poor kid killed himself and every race pimp was rubbing their hands in glee hoping to cash in. Even Crumpmis sticking his nose down there. What a rotten culture.
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