Ross Byrd Murder (2003, Texas)

James Byrd, Jr. (May 2, 1949 June 7, 1998) was an AfricanAmerican who was murdered by three white men in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John William King dragged Byrd behind a pickup truck along a macadam pavement after they wrapped a heavy logging chain around his ankles. Byrd was pulled along for about two miles as the truck swerved from side to