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Posted: 6/3/2010 5:20:45 PM EDT

This is 10 minutes down the road from me. I can only imagine how much attention this is going to bring to our little town & none of it is going to be good.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060301113.html

By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER

The Associated Press

Thursday, June 3, 2010; 6:54 PM

NEWBERRY, S.C. –– Two men who worked
at a South Carolina poultry processing plant had spent most of the day together
Tuesday, hanging out late into the evening, maybe rehashing their long shifts.

By the next morning, one of the men
- who was black - was dead, shot to death and then dragged behind a pickup
truck for more than 10 miles down a country road. The other - a white man - was
in jail, charged with murder, and authorities were investigating the death as a
possible hate crime.

"We've not been able to rule
that out," Reggie Lloyd, chief of the State Law Enforcement Division, said
Thursday. "You have to chase that down, as an angle of this."
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The FBI has been working with
Lloyd's agency to sort out what led up to the shooting death of Anthony Hill,
30. South Carolina has no state hate crime statute, and federal authorities have not decided
if they will take over the case.

The body of the former S.C. National
Guard firefighter was found around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 176 in
Newberry, a town of about 11,000 in central South Carolina.
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Killed by a gunshot wound to the
head, authorities said Hill's body was tied to a pickup truck with nylon rope
and dragged until it snapped, leaving his body in the roadway.
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Tracing the bloody trail left by
Hill's body, deputies were led to the home of Hill's 19-year-old co-worker,
Gregory Collins. For several hours, Collins refused to come out of his mobile
home, surrendering only after state police agents fired tear gas inside,
Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said.
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Collins was not armed when he was arrested,
but Foster said he had an empty pistol holster on his side. No bond was set for
Collins, who has been charged with murder and had his first court appearance
Thursday, said Newberry County Magistrate Ron Halfacre.

Hill and Collins worked together at
a Louis Rich chicken processing plant in Newberry County, authorities said.
Neither man had a serious criminal record, and Lloyd says his agents are still
running down a number of leads to find out how long the men knew each other, if
they argued before the shooting, or if they had been drinking or using drugs.
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"Everything else right now is
really just rumors," Lloyd said.
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Collins' mobile home is tucked in a
rural, wooded area near Interstate 26, far from the center of this quaint city
known for its opera house and historic downtown.
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The tree-lined road along which
authorities say Hill's body was dragged for nearly 11 miles winds through hilly
areas before opening up into gated properties of large country homes
interspersed with older farmhouses.

On Thursday, a foot-wide dark stain was visible in the right hand lane of
the asphalt roadway, a mark authorities planned to wash away later in the
afternoon.

Hill's body was found near a local elementary school, whose children were on
a half-day schedule. The local high school was scheduled to hold commencement
exercises Thursday evening.

One of Collins' neighbors described him as a quiet man who was up early for
work each day.

"He was like a loner, a quiet kind of person," Dakota Dye, 19,
said Thursday, standing outside her mobile home two lots down from Collins'
property. "I kept to our business, and he kept to his."

Standing outside the home she shared with her son in Winnsboro about 40
miles from Newberry, Hill's mother said Thursday she has a hard time believing
that her son would be the victim of a hate crime.

"I just don't know how it goes between the races," said Mattie
Smith, 48, standing outside her home in Winnsboro as friends and neighbors came
by to comfort her. "Anthony has always been a laid-back, very mannerable
young man."

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:23:23 PM EDT

[#1]

Oh, holy cow. That sucks, and just down the road. Newberry's not gonna like what's coming...

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:29:14 PM EDT

[#2]

Jasper, TX II

ETA. That's right on the fringe of our media market in the Augusta metro and I can assure that it will start a shitstorm here. Unfortunately, we are already sitting on a powder keg right here due to several issues and incidents that have culminated over the last 6 or 7 years. If a real "race war" ensues, I envision it's catalyst being the Augusta metro area of GA and SC.

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:30:01 PM EDT

[#3]

My cousin lives in that town. Damn. Any guesses as to how long it takes Al and Jesse to be on scene with entorage??

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:31:59 PM EDT

[#4]

Go ahead and hang the idiot. Save time and money.

That's some sick shit.

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:33:39 PM EDT

[#5]

WTF is wrong with some people?

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:35:49 PM EDT

[#6]

That's a fucked up thing to do

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:37:34 PM EDT

[#7]

Why is it a hate crime all of a sudden. Just because it was a white guy that killed a black guy. The motive could have been anything

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:39:04 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Jasper, TX II

ETA. That's right on the fringe of our media market in the Augusta metro and I can assure that it will start a shitstorm here. Unfortunately, we are already sitting on a powder keg right here due to several issues and incidents that have culminated over the last 6 or 7 years. If a real "race war" ensues, I envision it's catalyst being the Augusta metro area of GA and SC.

Nothing like Jasper Texas...

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:40:32 PM EDT

[#9]

South Carolina has a death penalty.

They should apply it.

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:44:19 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Why is it a hate crime all of a sudden. Just because it was a white guy that killed a black guy. The motive could have been anything

[grapevine] they were friends/acquaintances that worked together at the chicken plant & rented the trailer together & the fight was possibly over a female fueled by drugs, meth being my guess. [/grapevine]

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:44:53 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
WTF is wrong with some people?

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:45:22 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Jasper, TX II

ETA. That's right on the fringe of our media market in the Augusta metro and I can assure that it will start a shitstorm here. Unfortunately, we are already sitting on a powder keg right here due to several issues and incidents that have culminated over the last 6 or 7 years. If a real "race war" ensues, I envision it's catalyst being the Augusta metro area of GA and SC.

Nothing like Jasper Texas...

What's fucked up. I was stationed at Ft. Polk and had done a couple of Memorial Day parades and salutes in Jasper while stationed there. I really hated when all that went down, Jasper was a classic example of good ole small town USA.

Posted: 6/3/2010 5:45:26 PM EDT

[#13]

Well, now MSNBC will have something to report while ignoring the Obama bribery scandals.

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