Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to the Narragansett Herald of January 3, 1880, four Black men held in confinement at the jail in Amite, Alabama, were taken out by a crowd of about fifty men and shot to death. The men were in the jail when the crowd took them. The paper's account describes the killings as a mob action carried out after the men were removed from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched