UPDATE — Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, 4:51 p.m. EST: Video proof within the hanging demise of 21-year-old Delta State Scholar Demartravion “Trey” Reed has been retrieved and is being reviewed by investigators.
WLBT3 reviews that at a Wednesday morning press convention, Delta State Director of Public Security Mike Peeler was requested about rumors of the existence of video proof.
“There are movies. They’re within the fingers of the investigative group,” Peeler mentioned, including that Cleveland, Mississippi, police are main the investigation. The reporter then requested if surveillance video confirmed what occurred to Trey Reed when he died on campus.
“I can’t converse [to] that at this second,” Peeler mentioned. “However once more, there’s video, however… the investigation is ongoing.”
A preliminary report from the Bolivar County Coroner’s Workplace decided there was no proof of foul play, however as folks like Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson have mentioned, we can not ignore Mississippi’s lengthy historical past of racial violence in opposition to Black folks.
Reed’s physique was taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Workplace, and preliminary outcomes from that post-mortem needs to be launched on Thursday.
Maybe we’ve merely seen this story far too many instances recently…
A Black man is mysteriously discovered hanging from a tree, and the authorities appear all too desirous to name it a suicide, leaving the sufferer’s household with extra questions than solutions and loads of doubt that their liked one’s case is being dealt with accurately.
ORIGINAL STORY —
Early Monday morning, the physique of 21-year-old pupil Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a pupil at Mississippi’s Delta State College, was found hanging from a tree on campus. Earlier than lengthy, a press convention was held, throughout which College Police Chief Michael L. Peeler and Delta State President Dan Ennis each pressured that “there is no such thing as a proof of foul play” and “no proof of a menace to campus.” On Tuesday, Reed’s household and their attorneys, together with famed civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, held a press convention of their very own to demand full transparency from the authorities dealing with Reed’s investigation.
“The household doesn’t know precisely what occurred on September the fifteenth of 2025,” lawyer Vanessa Jones mentioned. “We’re looking for solutions.”
“The household of Trey Reed has not obtained a telephone name from the president of Delta State College,” Jones emphasised.
Conversely, WAPT 16 reported that the college’s president instructed through Fb that directors have been in touch with the household since Reed’s demise and can “proceed” to be.
“One in all our college students is gone and we are going to always remember that,” Ennis wrote. “We’ll proceed to contact and meet with Trey’s household. We give them our love and help, and we all know that we will by no means totally heal this wound.”
No matter whether or not Delta State leaders have been in communication with the household or not, the household is now calling for an unbiased investigation and post-mortem, and, in keeping with a press launch, Crump might be main the cost, working with “quite a few civil rights organizations to conduct a radical and clear investigation.”
Crump mentioned in an announcement, “Trey Reed was a younger man stuffed with promise and heat, deeply liked and revered by all who knew him. His household and the campus neighborhood deserve a full, unbiased investigation to uncover the reality about what occurred. We can not settle for obscure conclusions when so many questions stay. I stand with this household, and I’ll lead a group of civil rights leaders and organizations in pursuing transparency and solutions for Trey’s household.”
“We’ll search solutions independently from Delta State College and from the coroner’s workplace, and if want be, unbiased from the state coroner’s workplace, as a result of we’d like solutions as to what occurred to Trey Reed,” Jones mentioned Tuesday.
Jones additionally criticized authorities for what she referred to as “a doable constitutional violation of releasing Trey’s identify to the media instantly” after his physique was discovered. She additionally famous that “a whole lot of the questions we’ve got…needs to be fairly straightforward to reply, as a result of if this younger man was on the campus of Delta State College with all of those cameras…there needs to be surveillance of all of his actions.”
“And that’s what we would like,” she continued. “Convey the surveillance, convey the cameras in order that we’ll know precisely what occurred to Trey Reed.”
Reed’s story has gained consideration throughout social media, the place folks, particularly Black folks, are additionally not shopping for the reason that Reed killed himself.
Once more, we’ve seen and heard this story so many instances in the previous few years alone.
What’s happening?
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