Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

jail at Monroeville, Monroe County, Alabama

A young Black man held at the jail in Monroeville, Alabama, was taken from it by a mob and lynched, according to a brief newspaper report published in October 1892. The same report describes him as one of four young men taken from the jail and killed by a mob in this way. The mob took them from the jail at Monroeville, where they had been held.

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

News report