Ferguson protester lynched found hanging from a tree but police say it was suicide
A Ferguson protestor’s son was found dead near their St. Louis County home last month, the Associated Press reported.
Melissa McKinnies thinks her her son, Danye Jones, was murdered, the AP reported, but police are investigating it as a suicide.
“They lynched my baby,” Jones’ mom wrote on Facebook, according to the AP.
Facebook has since removed the post, the AP reported, but screen shots of it are now circulating across social media. The post included graphic photos of Jones hanging from a white piece of cloth. He appears to be next to a tree.
McKinnies’ post has stirred controversy about how Jones really died. Was he lynched? Or was it suicide?
The St. Louis County Police Department confirmed to McClatchy that officers responded to the home at about 6:10 a.m. on Oct. 17. They were responding to a “report of a suicide,” spokesman Sgt. Shawn McGuire said in a written statement.
“Detectives with Crimes Against Persons are leading the investigation, and it is being investigated as a suicide at this time,” he wrote.
McGuire said there were “no signs of struggle or trauma to the body,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He also told the Riverfront Times “there are no signs of foul play.”
Source: kansascity.com
Melissa McKinnies thinks her her son, Danye Jones, was murdered, the AP reported, but police are investigating it as a suicide.
“They lynched my baby,” Jones’ mom wrote on Facebook, according to the AP.
Facebook has since removed the post, the AP reported, but screen shots of it are now circulating across social media. The post included graphic photos of Jones hanging from a white piece of cloth. He appears to be next to a tree.
McKinnies’ post has stirred controversy about how Jones really died. Was he lynched? Or was it suicide?
The St. Louis County Police Department confirmed to McClatchy that officers responded to the home at about 6:10 a.m. on Oct. 17. They were responding to a “report of a suicide,” spokesman Sgt. Shawn McGuire said in a written statement.
“Detectives with Crimes Against Persons are leading the investigation, and it is being investigated as a suicide at this time,” he wrote.
McGuire said there were “no signs of struggle or trauma to the body,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He also told the Riverfront Times “there are no signs of foul play.”
Source: kansascity.com
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