Brutal: How promising US mayoral candidate was beaten, dragged, and set on fire before he died

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Marco McMillian was a young, promising mayoral candidate just one week ago.  Now, he’s dead.  Also, the conditions of his death have been revealed by his family, who is determined to share the sad details regarding what happened to their child.

According to his family, McMillian was beaten, dragged and set on fire this week before he died.  The death has sent shock waves through his community in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and has reminded some of another b****y death in the same state when the late Emmett Till was murdered in an equally-brutal fashion.

“We feel this was not a random act of violence based on the condition of the body when it was found,” the McMillian family said. “Marco, nor anyone, should have their lives end in this manner.”

The family says that the coroner gave them the details of McMillian’s death and the family is asking for a thorough investigation into how the 33-year old man died.  Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith, according to the Clarion Ledger, has declined comment on the incident, other than to say that the young man was not dragged behind a vehicle.  He says that the man was dragged out of the car to the place where his body was found.

“Of course, being a big man like he is, they couldn’t pick him up and take him,” Meredith said. “This is blown out of proportion.”

The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department hasn’t responded to the family’s statement on the situation.  McMillian’s body was found this week at the Mississippi River after he’d gone missing for a day.   The sheriff’s department has charged 22-year old Lawrence Reed in his death.   The murder is not being investigated as a hate crime.

One of the theories regarding the murder is that the death involved a dispute in a romantic relationship between the two men, since McMillian was openly gay.  The family said that they wanted to dispel this notion by giving details of how he died.   Reed was found earlier this week after crashing McMillian’s SUV into another car.  McMillian was not in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

The incident took place during an exciting time for McMillian’s family.  He had just moved back to Clarksdale in order to run for mayor.  Before his death, McMillian served as the international executive director of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, executive assistant and chief of staff to the president of Alabama A&M University, and assistant to the vice president for institutional advancement at Jackson State University.

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