Regardless of the myriad of incendiary tales which might be presently circulating the information cycle, one story particularly has not acquired almost the eye that it deserves. BOSSIP has been on high of it and hopefully the mainstream media begins to provide this younger man and his household the protection they should get justice on this case.
Demartravion “Trey” Reed was discovered hanging from a tree close to the pickleball courts on the Delta State College campus. Nevertheless, in response to reporting by Mississippi Free Press, this isn’t what his household was informed initially by native police. Household legal professional Vanessa J. Jones says that when regulation enforcement officers first broke the devastating information, they mentioned that Trey died in his dorm room.
“The Grenada County Sheriff’s Division arrived at Trey’s household’s house … at roughly 9:15, and knowledgeable the household that Trey was discovered useless in his dorm room, in his mattress,” she mentioned.
GCSD refutes this account of occasions says Chief Deputy Ricky Williamson.
“That was by no means the phrases that had been mentioned after they had been notified of his demise. Completely not. The dialog was that me and my investigator went there (to) the grandparents of Trey Reed, had them sit down on the porch, and we informed them that we had been despatched to inform them that Trey Reed had been discovered deceased at Delta State College, and that the (DSU Police) chief was on scene,” Williamson mentioned on Wednesday afternoon.
“I mentioned, and I don’t recall the precise wording, however that they didn’t imagine it had been accomplished by anybody else,” he continued. “I handed them the observe with the chief’s title and telephone quantity and requested may we pray with them. We prayed, and as we had been leaving, the grandmother requested, ‘Was he down on the ground, was he by his mattress?’ I mentioned, ‘Ma’am, I have no idea.’ And that’s after we walked away.”
In accordance with Clarion-Ledger, over 200 individuals gathered at Delta State to carry a candlelight vigil for Reed. A freshman scholar named Christian Evans spoke to the concern that many at DSU are feeling with the uncertainty about what truly occurred to their classmate.
“It’s heartbreaking to see any person lose their life in that style, in no matter style that they are saying it’s,” Evans informed the Clarion Ledger. “However nonetheless, it strikes a way of concern in lots of people, and I don’t need to be scared. That’s why I’m nonetheless coming to high school and nonetheless going to class. I’m simply making an attempt to not be scared. Lots of people, together with myself, are scared as a result of we don’t know for positive what occurred.”
The household is looking for a second, impartial post-mortem to find out Reed’s true reason for demise as they don’t imagine that he hanged himself within the method that regulation enforcement is claiming. Ubiquitous civil rights legal professional Ben Crump has introduced that Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp will foot the invoice for that post-mortem.
“Trey’s demise evoked the collective reminiscence of a group that has suffered a historic wound over many, a few years and lots of, many deaths. Peace will come solely by attending to the reality. We thank Colin Kaepernick for supporting this grieving household and the reason for justice and fact.”
We are going to proceed to watch all issues surrounding this case.
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