Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On January 27, 1870, a group of men took five Black men from the jail in Nashville at night and shot them to death. The men were being held in the jail when the mob took them from it. This was a lynching from custody, in which the state held the men and the mob took them from its care.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.