White Teens Charged With Desecrating Grave
From Times Wire Reports
Two white teenagers were charged in Jasper with desecrating the grave of James Byrd Jr., the black man dragged to his death from the back of a pickup truck in 1998.
Joshua Lee Talley, 19, of Jasper and John Matthew Fowler, 18, of Call, were each charged with one criminal mischief charge related to the desecration. They were also charged with seven unrelated theft, burglary and mischief charges.
Racial slurs and profanities were etched into a steel plate covering part of the vault of Byrd’s grave.
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