Killing of William Whitehorn in Tennessee in 1944
Incident
William Whitehorn (1896-1944), a sharecropper, was killed by Hardeman County deputy sheriff Harold Wilson in Whiteville, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Whitehorn was at the horse-trading yards of Community Trade Day when he bumped into Wilson. When he tried to apologize, Wilson knocked him to the ground and stomped on his face. Wilson then followed Whitehorn and ambushed him as he exited through the rear entrance. Wilson beat Whitehorn to the ground and then fatally shot him.
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