Ten Sentenced in Hate Crime Case

 

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Shown is the pickup truck that was used to run over and kill James Craig Anderson. After the resulting federal hate crimes investigation into Anderson’s death and a number of related criminal incidents, the driver of the truck was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison.

Murdered Man Among Multiple Victims

06/16/15

In Jackson, Mississippi, in the early morning hours of June 26, 2011, a 47-year-old African-American man—James Craig Anderson—was severely beaten and then intentionally run over with a pickup truck in an unprovoked attack by a group of white teenagers from nearby suburbs. Some of the teens yelled racial epithets during this horrific incident, a random act of hate crime violence that resulted in Anderson’s death.

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