Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of five Black people held in the jail at Petersburg, Virginia, this person was taken from the jail by a mob and lynched. The Plaindealer reported in January 1891 that the mob took all five out and killed them. The paper names the jail as the place the five were held when the mob came for them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.