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CLAIBORNE COUNTY, Miss. - Law enforcement officials are investigating the death of a black man who was found hanging from a tree Thursday after having been missing for two weeks.
Authorities have not released the man's name. However, he was identified by the Claiborne County NAACP chapter and family members as 54-year-old Otis Byrd.
He was found hanging in the woods about a half-mile from his last known residence, CBS News affiliate WJTV reported.
The investigation involves the FBI, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney's office. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is also involved.
The man was last seen March 2 and was reported missing by his family days later, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jason Pack said in a statement. Pack says the cause of death has not been determined, and authorities aren't sure if it's a homicide or a suicide.
Hi 'Bros' didn't like the fact that he stiffed them out of the $200 he owed them for the dope he was supposed to pay them.Because he couldn't have POSSIBLY hung himself. That sort of thing NEVER happens!
Worst case of suicide I ever seen.
Port Gibson, Mississippi (CNN)An African-American man is found hanging from a tree in the Mississippi woods with bedsheets around his neck attached to a limb 15 feet above the ground. There's no chair in sight. His feet are 2 to 3 feet off the ground. His hands are not bound.
Is this a suicide? Or is it a lynching -- a shadow from the South's history of racial violence re-emerging?
Those were the big questions Friday, one day after authorities found a man's body with bedsheets around his neck in Port Gibson, a small town of just over 1,500 people in rural Claiborne County, about 60 miles southwest of Jackson, the state capital.
Evidence collected so far doesn't suggest foul play in the death, law enforcement officials said. For that reason, suicide is the early theory as the likely manner of death, the officials said.
Like OJ's ex, da bitch deserved it.he was convicted of murdering a white woman
what a surprise
