Dragging Death News

Hundreds protest dragging death of SC black man

By theGrio

10:34 AM on 07/20/2010

The area's racial tension can no longer be ignored after a local white man, Gregory Collins, was arrested - in early June in the shooting death of his coworker Anthony Hill. Hill's corpse had been behind a truck for nearly 11 miles, police said...
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SC police: Black man shot to death, body dragged

By theGrio

2:20 PM on 06/03/2010

NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) - The shooting death of a black man whose body was dragged for several miles is being investigated as a possible hate crime after the arrest of a white man he worked with...
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New Black Panther party protests dragging death in Texas

By theGrio

10:18 AM on 07/22/2009

Dropped charges against two white men once accused in the dragging death of an African American man is still dividing the town of Paris, Texas. Shannon Finley and Charles Crostley were released Thursday, June 5th after a state judge in Paris dismissed the murder charges against them...
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Murder charges dropped in black man's dragging death

By theGrio

7:27 PM on 06/04/2009

JEFF CARLTON Associated Press Writer/Photo Courtesy AP DALLAS (AP) -- Murder charges were dropped at the prosecution's request Thursday in the dragging death of a black man, and the two white men who had been accused of killing him were released from jail. Shannon Finley and Charles Crostley were released...
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