On the videotape, obtained and reviewed by CNN, the group of teens is seen pulling into the parking lot, and stopping where Anderson is standing, though he is just off camera and not visible. "This is the first business that you get to coming off the highway and so that was the first person that was out here and vulnerable," said district attorney Smith. The teens would have seen Anderson immediately as they exited the highway, as the parking lot where he was standing is just beside the exit ramp. Then, the gang of teens climbed into Dedmon's green truck and a white SUV Cherokee, and drove 16 miles down Interstate 20, to the western edge of Jackson, a predominantly black area.
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The group of teens that night was led by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon, Jr., of Brandon, Mississippi, according to police and officials.ĭedmon led and instigated the attack from early in the evening, he took part in the beating of Anderson, and Dedmon was also the actual driver of the Ford 250 truck that would serve as the murder weapon, according to officials.Īs the teens were partying and drinking miles away from Jackson that night, in largely white Rankin County, Dedmon told friends they should leave, saying "let's go fuck with some niggers," according to law enforcement officials. What the gang of teens did not know was that a surveillance camera was focused on the parking lot that night, and many of the events, including the actual murder of Anderson, were captured live on videotape.ĬNN has exclusively obtained that surveillance tape. Mississippi officials say it was a racially motivated murder. Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith says a group of the teens then climbed into their large Ford F250 green pickup truck, floored the gas, and drove the truck right over Anderson, killing him instantly. The teens allegedly beat Anderson repeatedly, yelled racial epithets, including "White Power!" according to witnesses. James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, was standing in a parking lot, near his car. In a parking lot on the western side of town they found their victim. Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) - On a recent Sunday morning just before dawn, two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says was a mission of hate: to find and hurt a black person.
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Dedmon faces possible double life sentence for the murderĮditor's note: The following story contains language some readers may consider offensive.The suspected ringleader, Deryl Dedmon, Jr., 18, has been charged with murder.Authorities say a group of white teens targeted Anderson because he was black.
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James Craig Anderson, 49, was run over and killed on June 26.