Death of Hanged Scott County Man

The Mississippi State Conference NAACP (MS NAACP) is calling for the continued investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death of Willie Andrew Jones, Jr., an African American man whose body was discovered hanging from a tree in the front yard of a Scott County, Miss., residence in February of this year. MS NAACP has joined the Jones and Townsend families to request a full examination of the facts by the FBI.

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