Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 1911 · Columbia County, Florida

A mob took this person from the jail in Lake City, Florida, and killed them in May 1911. According to an editorial in The Savannah Tribune published May 27, 1911, six Black people were taken from the jail and killed in the week before publication, and this person was one of them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report