Died in jail or a lockup
N. P. Norman
N. P. Norman, a Black man, was being driven by Deputy Sheriff Jordan from Ashdown toward the Texarkana jail when four masked men stopped the car and took him at gunpoint. About three hours later his body was found on another road about five miles from town, with gunshot wounds to the head and body. According to the report, Deputy Jordan was unarmed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A deputy was driving Norman toward the Texarkana jail when masked men stopped the car and took him at gunpoint, and his body was later found shot on a road outside town.
Reported by: Deputy Sheriff Jordan (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.