Jackson, Miss – On Tuesday, the police were investigating the death of a black university student who was found suspended from a tree on the campus of the University of Delta State in the state of Mississippi, which raised online rumors that sparked the state’s history of racist violence during the reign of Jim Crowe even when the authorities said that there is no initial evidence of a crime.
The campus police chief said that there are no signs that a 21 -year -old student, whose body was discovered by an employee early on Monday near PickleBall Campus, was played.
Delta Police Commander Michael Belller said there is also no evidence of a constant threat to students and faculty. He told reporters on Monday that the investigation of the death was assisted by the Bureau of Investigations in the Mississippi, as well as local police deputies and honorable deputies.
A woman answered the phone on the campus police station on Tuesday that the agency had no other information to be released.
Rumors were found online that the student was found with broken parties by the Bolivar Randolph Siliz Junior in a statement cited by local news means, Siliz said that his office conducted a preliminary exam and concluded that the student did not suffer from any lacar, disasters, broken balls or injuries commensurate with any influences.
The pathologist immediately did not immediately repeat the phone messages on Tuesday from the Associated Press.
Attempts to reach the student family were not immediately successful. A woman who defined herself as AP cousin told a message online that the family was not talking to the correspondents. Two others said that they were distant relatives who refused to comment upon arrival on the phone.
In a video posted on Tuesday on the university’s Facebook page, the President of Delta Dan Eins said that the university was resuming operations while continuing mourning. He said that campus officials were in contact with the student’s family.
Eneis said: “We know that we can never heal this wound.” “We continue to cooperate with investigators. We continue to make sure that all the necessary information is provided to the authorities. We are still hoping for answers.”
The classroom was canceled on Monday at the university, as well as events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their opening as a college of Delta teachers in September 1925.
Delta State is located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta near the Arkansas state line, and was in the fall of 2024 more than 2,600 students, 42 % of them are black.
Several social media publications on the issue raised a darker period in the history of the United States when black killings, almost exclusively at the hands of white male hands, caused racial terrorism in Mississippi and other parts of the deep south.
The Delta State campus is located in Cleveland, about 30 miles (48 km) from a site that is closely related to the famous ropes from Even. A mark in Tallahaatherchie River Landing near Glendora 70 years ago From the body of a distorted tel in the water.
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Journalist Ross Benom contributed in Savana, Georgia.