Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 1911 · Columbia County, Florida

According to a Savannah Tribune editorial published May 27, 1911, a mob took this Black person from the jail in Lake City, Florida, and killed them in May 1911, during the same week the editorial says six Black people were killed in this way. The person was held at that jail when the mob took them.

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

Reported by: news reports.

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