Died in custody
Green McCoy
Green McCoy was held in the custody of officers who had brought him to Lincoln County, West Virginia, in 1889, during the Brumfield feud. According to The Daily Times, citing a Charleston gentleman who visited the Harts Creek district, a group took him and Milton Haley from the officers at night at George Fry's house on Harts Creek and shot them. The Evening Bulletin, relaying a Charleston gentleman's account, gave the same place and said he was taken from the officers and shot. The Osceola Times gave a shorter account placing him in the jail at Hamilton, West Virginia, where a mob took him and lynched him.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody