Earlier this week Claiborne County Sheriff, from Mississippi reported a black male was found hanging from a tree with bed sheets wrapped around his neck.
Atlanta author, opinion writer and left-wing activist Goldie Taylor immediately claimed he was lynched.
There was a lynching in Claiborne County, MS today. Otis Byrd had been missing for ten days.
— Goldie Taylor © (@goldietaylor) March 19, 2015
It wasn’t.
Preliminary tests suggested today 54 year-old African American Otis Byrd likely committed suicide.
JUST IN: Prelim autopsy suggests black man found hanging from tree in Mississippi likely killed self, via @latimes pic.twitter.com/YHYuv7Jef8
— Shepard Smith (@ShepNewsTeam) March 20, 2015