Eugene Daniel
Eugene Daniel was a 16-year-old Black boy. In 1921 a mob took him from a jail in Chatham County, North Carolina, and killed him near Moore's Bridge outside Pittsboro. A 2021 county board report said no investigation was ever conducted into who killed him and that evidence suggests several local officials were complicit. The Chatham County Board of Commissioners formally apologized, and a commissioner said the apology was meant to help his family and the wider community heal, while the local NAACP branch president called it an important first step.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (neglect alleged). A 2021 Chatham County Board of Commissioners report says a mob took Eugene from the county jail and killed him, that officials were complicit, and that no one ever investigated who killed him.
Reported by: Chatham County Board of Commissioners.