South Carolina Man Paid To Have His Black Neighbor Murdered Via Hanging With Burning Cross On His Lawn

May 10. 2018

Brandon Cory Lecroy

White supremacist, Brandon Cory Lecroy, of South Carolina, paid a man $500 to kill his black neighbor via "hanging from a tree" and place a "flaming cross" in his yard. A burning cross is a symbol used by white supremacists, especially during the civil rights era, to convey a racist message, with the intent of terrifying and terrorizing black people. It is also sacrilegious to set a cross on fire.

Lecroy is a member of a white supremacist group. Through the white supremacist group he belongs to, Lecroy was put into contact with a man he was told would kill his neighbor for money. Lecroy asked a man to commit the crime in exchange for cash. Lecroy even told the man the best time to commit the crime and gave him photos of his neighbor whom he wanted killed.

Lecroy also revealed he would steal his neighbor's house after the murder was completed. However, the man he offered the money to in the murder scheme is a sheriff's deputy. Lecroy has been arrested and charged with "soliciting a crime of violence." He is currently in federal prison awaiting trial. If convicted, Lecroy faces 10-years in prison and a $250,000 fine. And they say racism is dead.

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Brandon Cory Lecroy Spartanburg County Detention Center

May 08, 2018 08:42 PM - A white South Carolina man tried to hire someone to kill his black neighbor, hang him and put a "flaming cross" in his yard, but the person he hired turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Brandon Cory Lecroy, 25, was charged with solicitation to commit a crime of violence and use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, according to an indictment from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The indictment stated that the Hodges resident arranged to pay for the murder of his neighbor with a Lexington County deputy who was working for the FBI, indexjournal.com reported. Officials reported that Lecroy contacted the undercover agent through a white supremacist group and told him "$500 and he's a ghost" during a March conversation, according to foxcarolina.com. The Greenwood County man sent the undercover agent pictures of his neighbor and specified that he wanted to "hang his neighbor from a tree" and have a "flaming cross" put in the front yard, the indictment states, according to postandcourier.com...

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