FBI: Autopsy report days away in hanging of Mississippi man

[brassmonkey]

PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) ? The body of a black man found hanging in a tree in Mississippi has been sent from a state crime lab to a funeral home, but the FBI said it will be days before autopsy results are complete. Until then, investigators are holding off on saying whether Otis Byrd was killed or took his own life, and they're urging people to be patient.

"The community deserves answers. Specifically, the family deserves answers," Don Alway, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Jackson, told a crowd Friday outside the Claiborne County Courthouse in Port Gibson. He said preliminary information about the cause of death is expected next week.

"We're doing everything in our power to be transparent, to talk about what's going on so far," Alway said. "But we want to reiterate that individual, single pieces of information and bits of rumors, we're going to hold off on speaking to those until we can collectively come to a conclusion and get you the truth that everybody deserves."

The county coroner confirmed that the man found hanging from a white sheet Thursday was Byrd, a 54-year-old ex-convict who was reported missing by his family more than two weeks ago. Byrd lived just 200 yards from the spot where his body was found, in woods behind his house.

Alway said investigators are interviewing Byrd's family and friends and searching his rental home and a storage unit for clues. "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 by a sheet from a tree limb about 12 feet high. His feet were dangling about 2 feet off the ground, and his hands were not bound, Lucas said.

"Life matters," Lucas told the crowd at the courthouse where he appeared with Alway. "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."

Byrd's body was released on Friday to a Port Gibson funeral home, said Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain. An employee at Rollins Funeral Home said funeral arrangements will be made early next week.

Byrd worked on offshore oil rigs and enjoyed gambling in casinos in his off time after getting out of prison, where he served 26 years for fatally shooting a woman while robbing $101 from her convenience store in 1980.

He wasn't the type to kill himself, friends and family said. "He tried to turn his life around. He was going to church every Sunday," said his stepsister, Tracy Wilson. Lora McDaniel, a high school classmate who went to church with Byrd and his family, said "he always had a smile on his face. I just can't see him committing suicide."

"He was a quiet man. He didn't bother nobody," added Anita Smith, another high school classmate. "He had been out nine years and all of the sudden this happens to him? Impossible." Smith said she is planning to participate in a march Monday in Port Gibson to protest Byrd's death.

Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson said he doesn't want people to rush to judgment. "We just want to make sure there's a thorough federal, state and local investigation," Johnson said. The hanging is being investigated by the FBI, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney's office as well as the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. These officials are on the scene to determine if it's a potential hate crime or other violation of federal law, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said.

Claiborne County sits on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, with Natchez to the south and Vicksburg to the north. About 85 percent of the county's 9,250 residents are African-American. Port Gibson is in the district of U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat and the only black member of Mississippi's congressional delegation. He issued a statement calling on the government to use "every resource available to bring swift justice" if foul play was involved.

"Given the history of the state, it is unavoidable that the hanging of a black man in Mississippi justifiably engenders deeply raw emotions," Thompson said.

FBI: Autopsy report days away in hanging of Mississippi man

[Bladewire]

Was he Gay? If he was Gay and black the black community wouldn't care as much, if at all.

[mineistaken]

Yesterday I saw a short clip about it, friends were quoted by the reporter - "he was turning his life around". I instantly thought of GFY after hearing that
And I also wondered if the reporter had a kick of that phrase in that regard as well

[JFK]

"Byrd did not appear to have stepped off of anything in the area where he was found hanging by a sheet from a tree limb about 12 feet high. His feet were dangling about 2 feet off the ground, and his hands were not bound, Lucas said."

Interesting

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by JFK

"Byrd did not appear to have stepped off of anything in the area where he was found hanging by a sheet from a tree limb about 12 feet high. His feet were dangling about 2 feet off the ground, and his hands were not bound, Lucas said."

Interesting

when I was a kid my friend and I used to climb up the cherry tree with the bucket in summer time. We climb really high and sit on the the big branches and picked cherries eatem.


why nobody is saying that its possible he climbed up the tree and hung himself is beyond me

[Bryan G]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

when I was a kid my friend and I used to climb up the cherry tree with the bucket in summer time. We climb really high and sit on the the big branches and picked cherries eatem.


why nobody is saying that its possible he climbed up the tree and hung himself is beyond me

It says he might have killed himself in the first paragraph.

[atom]

He was a convicted murderer. karmas a bitch

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

why nobody is saying that its possible he climbed up the tree and hung himself is beyond me

"They" want it to be murder so that they could assume the reason was color of the skin so that they could race monger about evil whitey.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by atom

He was a convicted murderer. karmas a bitch

He was turning his life around!

[SilentKnight]

Have to wait for the report from Al Sharpton.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Have to wait for the report from Al Sharpton.

fukin dummy old ass racist beeyatch

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

fukin dummy old ass racist beeyatch

Even black people hating on good ol' Race Scumpton

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Even black people hating on good ol' Race Scumpton

man i wish you didnt hide like a bitch

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

man i wish you didnt hide like a bitch

Says BM who:
https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-pr...s#post20406991

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Was he Gay? If he was Gay and black the black community wouldn't care as much, if at all.

You are free to test that theory by posting the story of the gay guy being hung in a tree.

Waiting right here.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Says BM who:
https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-pr...s#post20406991

wanna meet up? u scared?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

You are free to test that theory by posting the story of the gay guy being hung in a tree.

Waiting right here.

hit me on the email foo

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Was he Gay? If he was Gay and black the black community wouldn't care as much, if at all.

I guess you don't care unless he's gay.
I didn't hear that you cared in that response.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

I guess you don't care unless he's gay.
I didn't hear that you cared in that response.

i couldn't care less about that dude.

did you hear that?

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

i couldn't care less about that dude.

did you hear that?

Yeah, and so?

Like that would be new info.

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

fukin dummy old ass racist beeyatch

Ooooooo...ouch.

You really got me there.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Yeah, and so?

Like that would be new info.

it's funny because it's true.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

You are free to test that theory by posting the story of the gay guy being hung in a tree.

Waiting right here.

Hung Gay man NEXT!

[420]

Who would actually care that some guy died who had killed a lady during an armed robbery? Maybe his family and friends but beyond that no one until the news tells them care.

It sometimes sounds like black american is another political party. You must back your party regardless of the issue.

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Hung Gay man NEXT!

I guess I really hurt your feelings since you had to gay it out.



That's sad, you're upset because you don't have a gay murder to exploit here for sympathy.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by 420

Who would actually care that some guy died who had killed a lady during an armed robbery? Maybe his family and friends but beyond that no one until the news tells them care.

It sometimes sounds like black american is another political party. You must back your party regardless of the issue.

Quoted for the truth. And some people care, I bet they even wish, so that they could race monger.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

I guess I really hurt your feelings since you had to gay it out.



That's sad, you're upset because you don't have a gay murder to exploit here for sympathy.

Oh please like I need sympathy bro I'm a strong white grown Gay man.

FEAST YOUR EYES and bone

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by 420

Who would actually care that some guy died who had killed a lady during an armed robbery? Maybe his family and friends but beyond that no one until the news tells them care.

It sometimes sounds like black american is another political party. You must back your party regardless of the issue.

Who said anything about caring about the guy?
It's more a matter of if we care about crime.
Because why care about his previous crime if we don't care about crime?
So we either care about crime or we don't.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Because why care about his previous crime if we don't care about crime?

Because he killed a white 8 month pregnant mother of 3?

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Oh please like I need sympathy bro I'm a strong white grown Gay man.

FEAST YOUR EYES and bone

Nope.

You're just a racist clown that tried to hide behind being gay.

[420]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Who said anything about caring about the guy?
It's more a matter of if we care about crime.
Because why care about his previous crime if we don't care about crime?
So we either care about crime or we don't.

Are you trying to confuse me? If someone hung him there then they can die without anyone caring as well. But, I don't know if white supremacists are active in towns that are 85% black. And I'm guessing they'd use rope instead of a bed sheet. Isn't that somewhat common in prisons; to hang themselves with their sheets?

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by 420

Are you trying to confuse me? If someone hung him there then they can die without anyone caring as well. But, I don't know if white supremacists are active in towns that are 85% black. And I'm guessing they'd use rope instead of a bed sheet. Isn't that somewhat common in prisons; to hang themselves with their sheets?

Nobody knows what happened yet, cops just know a guy is dead and it's not easy to
explain how he did it himself.

There isn't any evidence in the case yet so bringing up white supremacy is premature.
So you should stop defending white supremacy before it is even attacked.

[420]

I think the original concern from investigators was due to history because it happened in Mississippi. That's what I read anyway. And that's all I have to say about that.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Nope.

You're just a racist clown that tried to hide behind being gay.

You can't prove I'm Gay or racist.

Proof or ban

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Nope.

You're just a racist clown that tried to hide behind being gay.

why even argue with these bitchez?? in person then would not say shit i promise u

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

why even argue with these bitchez?? in person then would not say shit i promise u

In person we'd be all laughing and drinking dude , I promise you

[~Ray]

hung by a bed sheet? prison debt?

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

You can't prove I'm Gay or racist.

Proof or ban

Proof.

..

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Proof.

..

It's genetic. There's no avoiding us.

I'm going to turn you Gay

[L-Pink]

I'm sure it was an accident.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by ~Ray

hung by a bed sheet? prison debt?

This actually makes sense.

The man spent 25 years in prison, only to get out and die by hanging, his body dangling from a tree for weeks before being found. damn

[Bladewire]

And the plot thickens - the woman he murdered was the mother in law of former congressman, and secretary of defense, Paul McHale. A revenge killing for his wife?

"The Mississippi Department of Corrections said Byrd spent a little over 25 years in prison for the murder of Lucille Trimm during a robbery. He was convicted of capital murder on Feb. 8, 1980, and was paroled Nov. 2, 2006. Trimm was the mother of Martha Rainville, the first woman in the history of the National Guard to serve as a state adjutant general when she became adjutant general in Vermont in 1997. Rainville lives in Virginia and is married to the Hon. Paul McHale, a former congressman from Pennsylvania and a former assistant secretary of Defense."

[JFK]

Originally Posted by Bryan G

It says he might have killed himself in the first paragraph.

from that height, he would probably have a broken neck ?

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

And the plot thickens - the woman he murdered was the mother in law of former congressman, and secretary of defense, Paul McHale. A revenge killing for his wife?

"The Mississippi Department of Corrections said Byrd spent a little over 25 years in prison for the murder of Lucille Trimm during a robbery. He was convicted of capital murder on Feb. 8, 1980, and was paroled Nov. 2, 2006. Trimm was the mother of Martha Rainville, the first woman in the history of the National Guard to serve as a state adjutant general when she became adjutant general in Vermont in 1997. Rainville lives in Virginia and is married to the Hon. Paul McHale, a former congressman from Pennsylvania and a former assistant secretary of Defense."

That's a lot of words without a shred of evidence in it.

[Mediamix]

[Horatio Caine]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

why even argue with these bitchez?? in person then would not say shit i promise u

You did meet baddog at Phoenix forum, right?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Horatio Caine

You did meet baddog at Phoenix forum, right?

i dont live in phoenix

[SBJ]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

i dont live in phoenix

that's alright the phoenix forums isn't in phoenix either.. it's in Tempe and was in Scottsdale before that.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by SBJ

that's alright the phoenix forums isn't in phoenix either.. it's in Tempe and was in Scottsdale before that.

well phoenix is the biggest in Az. im over in the seedy part of glendale.