Police: No Evidence of a Hanging in Roy Veal Death

Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 05:12AM
TheSpook

With inquiries pouring in from around the country, federal, state and local law enforcement tried to shoot down rumors Monday that a black man was lynched near his mother's Wilkinson County home last spring. The body of Roy Veal, a Washington state resident, was found hanging from a tree April 23. The county coroner has ruled the 55-year-old man's death a suicide. Sheriff Reginald Jackson has said that as an African American he would have a vested interest in pursuing the people responsible for a lynching, but Jackson is convinced Veal took his own life. He said there were no suspicious injuries on Veal's body. [more]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).