Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 1911 · Columbia County, Florida

According to a May 27, 1911 editorial in The Savannah Tribune, a mob took six Black people from the jail in Lake City, Florida, and killed them in the week before publication. This person, who was Black, was one of those six and was held at that jail when the mob took them. Their death is a lynching from custody: a mob took them from the jail where they were held and killed them.

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

Reported by: news reports.

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