Garrett Hood

Garrett Hood was one of five Black men who, according to a dispatch from Dewitt, Arkansas, printed in The Bemidji Daily Pioneer in March 1904, were taken from guards by a crowd near St. Charles and shot to death. The dispatch places the killings during a week of racial violence in the area, in which it reported nine Black people killed. The dispatch's account of how the guards responded to the crowd is not given here, and no family or other sources describe his life.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Dewitt, Arkansas dispatch reported that a crowd took Garrett Hood from guards near St. Charles and shot him to death.

Reported by: Dewitt, Arkansas dispatch (reporters).

Source

• The Bemidji Daily Pioneer, March 28, 1904, page 1 The Bemidji Daily Pioneer, March 28, 1904