2 women sentenced in slaying of Mississippi black man [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

2 women sentenced in slaying of Mississippi black man
By JEFF AMY, Associated Press | April 9, 2015 | Updated: April 9, 2015 6:05pm


JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two women who were part of a group that repeatedly searched Mississippi's capital city for black people to assault were sentenced Thursday to multiple years in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate on Thursday sentenced Shelbie Brooke Richards of Pearl to eight years in prison on one count each of conspiracy to commit a hate crime and concealing the crime by lying to police.

In a separate hearing earlier Thursday, Wingate also sentenced Sarah Adelia Graves of Crystal Springs to five years in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit a hate crime.

Both women were riding in a truck that ran over James Craig Anderson in June 2011. Anderson died after being beaten and run over.



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Graves and Richards receive max sentence

Anderson's sister calls his death 'modern-day lynching'

UPDATED 5:45 PM CDT Apr 09, 2015


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Sarah Graves and Shelbie Richards

Sarah Graves and Shelbie Richards on Dec. 12, 2014, plead guilty to one count each of conspiring to violate the federal
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JACKSON, Miss. —Two white women that were convicted for their roles in the racially motivated killing of a black man in Jackson are now facing several years in prison.

Sarah Adelia Graves turned to James Craig Anderson's family Thursday, wiped tears from her eyes and said, "I'm sorry for your loss."
She was then sentenced by U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate to five years in prison.

Sentencing followed for Shelbie Brooke Richards, who along with graves, was part of a group who repeatedly searched Jackson for black people to attack, including Anderson, who was killed in 2011.

Graves pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy and faces up to five years in prison. Richards, who pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy and concealing the crime by lying to police, faces eight years in prison.

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