Died in jail or a lockup
Flint Williams
Flint Williams, a young Black man, was held in the Monroe, Louisiana, jail in March 1907. Shortly before 2 a.m. on March 15, about fifty men took him and another prisoner from the jail and hanged them from an oak tree in the courthouse square. The Associated Press reported that a member of the group took the jailer's key at gunpoint, while The Picayune reported that the keys were taken from a police officer at gunpoint and that the action was carefully planned.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody