Javion Magee, a 21-year-old truck driver from the Chicago area, was determined dead in a rural vicinity off Vanco Mill Road on 11th of September. Investigators said he changed into no longer a ways from his truck, leaning together with his lower back up against a tree and a rope round his neck.
Magee's circle of relatives in Chicago is disillusioned and worrying solutions. Many of them are even on their manner to North Carolina in an try to pressure investigators to launch extra facts approximately what came about.
"I recognize there's over 1,000 hits on TikTok (accusing) the sheriff's office of now not being transparent, now not supplying records to the circle of relatives and that isn't always true," Vance County Sheriff Curtis R. Brame stated. "There's been data put obtainable that there is a lynching in Vance County. There isn't always a lynching in Vance County. The younger guy turned into now not dangling from a tree. He become not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped round his neck. It become now not a noose. There became no longer a knot within the rope, so therefore, it became no longer a lynching here in Vance County."
Brame advised ABC11 there had been no signs of foul play in Magee's demise. He stated Magee went to a close-by Walmart rapidly before he died. That is wherein he is believed to have offered the rope located round his neck.
Magee's body has been sent to the health worker for an post-mortem to formally determine the purpose of demise.
Brame stated as soon as a initial record comes again from that autopsy, he's going to percentage it with Magee's circle of relatives after which make a decision about the way to percentage it with the general public.
Brame also stated the State Bureau of Investigation is now worried within the case.