Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men were held in the jail at Brooksville, Florida, when, according to a brief item in The Columbus Journal published January 9, 1884, they were taken from the jail and killed by gunfire. The jail was the place where the state held them, and the item reports their deaths as a killing carried out after they were removed from its custody. Their names are recorded nowhere in the item, so their deaths are known only from this newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.