The State - News from Jan. 19, 1986

The FBI is investigating the death of a black male homosexual at a transit station in Concord, a hanging that police said was a suicide. The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, which asked for the federal probe, believes that Timothy Lee was lynched on Nov. 2, noting there have been “numerous reports of racial intolerance” in recent months in the residential city 35 miles east of San Francisco. Documents provided to the FBI indicate that residents near the transit station heard screams and people running away about the time Lee is believed to have died.