Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people held at the jail in Brookhaven, Mississippi, were taken out and killed by a mob, according to a brief item in the People and Patriot published October 2, 1884. The four were in the custody of the jail when the mob took them from it. The paper reported the killings as lynchings carried out by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.