James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old American man who was murdered in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 26, 2011, by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon of Brandon. At the time of his death, Anderson was working on the assembly line at the Nissan plant in Canton, and raising an adopted son with his partner.

Jul 17, 2022 · Deryl Dedmon was 18 years old when he and his friends got together for a party on 26 June 2011. According to police reports, it was his idea to lead his friends to Jackson to attack black individuals there. The group then drove to the western edge of Jackson, where Dedmon’s friends spotted Anderson in the parking lot at the Metro Inn.

Deryl Dedmon, a white Mississippi teenager, pleaded guilty to murder and committing a hate crime for running over a black man with his pickup truck. Dedmon was sentenced to two life sentences for killing 49-year-old James Anderson in Jackson in June, 2011.

Feb 10, 2015 · The Justice Department announced today that Deryl Paul Dedmon, 22, John Aaron Rice, 21, and Dylan Wade Butler, 23, all of Brandon, Mississippi, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Jackson for their roles in federal hate crime charges in connection with an assault culminating in the death of James Craig Anderson, an African-American ...

Nov 1, 2017 · Anderson was killed in the parking lot of the Metro Inn in Jackson when Deryl Dedmon purposely drove his Ford F-250 over him in the summer of 2011. A group of white teenagers left a party in...

Feb 10, 2015 · Deryl Dedmon, who drove the truck that killed James Craig Anderson, will serve 50 years in prison. James Craig Anderson's partner, James Bradfield, said the couple's...

Mar 21, 2012 · Deryl Dedmon pleaded guilty to murder and a hate-crime charge before a judge in Jackson on Wednesday afternoon, admitting to the June killing of James Craig Anderson.

Feb 11, 2015 · JACKSON, Mississippi -- Three young white men who admitted they were out hunting black people to attack when they beat, ran over and killed a 47-year-old car...

Mar 22, 2012 · ATLANTA — Deryl Dedmon, a white teenager who drove a pickup truck over a black man in the parking lot of a Jackson, Miss., motel, pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday and was sent to prison for...

Feb 11, 2015 · Deryl Paul Dedmon, now 22, was sentenced to 50 years in prison; John Aaron Rice, 21, to more than 18 years; and Dylan Wade Butler, 23, to seven years, federal authorities said this week.