{"id":4733,"date":"2014-07-16T19:44:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T02:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2014-07-16T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T02:57:04","slug":"four-indicted-racially-motivated-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=4733","title":{"rendered":"Four Indicted for Racially Motivated Hate Crimes Including Fatally Assaulting a Blackman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Federal<\/a>MISSISSIPPI \u00a0<\/strong>– \u00a0Four people were indicted for a racially motivated hate crimes spree in Jackson for allegedly using weapons, including beer bottles, sling shots and motor vehicles to try to injury blacks.<\/p>\n

The federal grand jury indicted John Louis Blalack<\/strong>, 20, of Brandon, Mississippi, Sarah Adelia Graves,<\/strong> 21, of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, Robert Henry Rice<\/strong>, 23, of Brandon, and Shelbie Brooke Richards,<\/strong> 20, of Pearl, Mississippi, for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to commit federal hate crimes against blacks in Jackson, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Defendants Deryl Paul Dedmon<\/strong>, 20; John Aaron Rice<\/strong>, 19; Dylan Wade Butler,<\/strong> 21; William Kirk Montgomery,<\/strong> 23; Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp,<\/strong> 20; and Joseph Dominick<\/strong>, 22, all from Brandon, have previously entered guilty pleas in connection with their roles in these offenses.<\/p>\n

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James Craig Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The indictment details several assaults, including the fatal assault on\u00a0James Craig Anderson<\/strong> who was beaten then killed after being run over, in front of the Metro Inn in Jackson in June of 2011.<\/p>\n

Beginning in the Spring of 2011, the defendants and others conspired with one another to harass and assault blacks.<\/p>\n

The co-conspirators are alleged to have specifically targeted African-American people they believed to be homeless or under the influence of alcohol because they believed that such individuals would be less likely to report an assault.<\/p>\n

The co-conspirators would often boast about these racially motivated assaults. \u00a0The fatal assault was captured on hotel surveillance video.<\/p>\n

Anderson’s family has asked prosecutors not to pursue the death penalty, saying they’re opposed to capital punishment. The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against all seven of those allegedly involved in Anderson’s death. The lawsuit, pending in Hinds County Circuit Court, seeks unspecified damages, according to the Sun Herald newspaper.<\/a><\/p>\n

The defendants face a statutory maximum sentence of life in prison.<\/p>\n

The case was investigated by the FBI and the Jackson Police Department
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