Killing of Melvin Randolph in Tennessee in 1934
Incident
Melvin Randolph, 23, a farmer, was killed in 1934 by Sheriff W.C. Haynes in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Randolph was in Haynes’s custody on a charge of attacking a 15-year-old girl, and was being transported to trial. Haynes fatally shot Randolph, claiming self-defense.
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