PROMISING FOOTBALL PLAYER WENT MISSING... FOUND THE NEXT DAY HUNG FROM A SWING SET 1/4 MILE FROM HIS HOME IN BLANDENBORO NORTH CAROLINA...... NO NEWS COVERAGE THO: According to his father, Larry Walton, he was one of the last people to see Lacy alive. Around midnight on that Friday, Walton got up to get a glass of water and saw his son, in his room, preparing his football uniform for the first football game of the season–which would happen later that day. A starting linebacker on the varsity team at his local high school, Lacy had reportedly been training all summer to do big things on the field. He hoped to have such an impact that he would get a football scholarship for college, and find his way into the NFL in the future. Lacy had big dreams and plans for himself, but he wasn’t able to see them through. According to Walton, after telling Lacy he should to go to bed, he heard the front door open and close. Walton didn’t think much of it and went back to bed. But the next morning, Lacy’s mother found her son’s uniform still on his bed and the police at her door. The teen, known in the neighborhood for being a polite and “well-mannered” young man involved at his church, was found hanging from a wooden swing set a quarter mile away from his family’s home in Bladenboro, near a trailer park. Since that day, the family has been trying to get answers, answers that the police don’t seem to have and don’t seem to be working hard enough to find. According to Lacy’s mother, Claudia, the teen had indentations and abrasions to his face. The mortician who embalmed his body said that the marks on the teen (including a large knot above his eye), and abrasions he saw on the young man’s arms, reminded him of “corpses he had embalmed where the deceased had been killed in a bar-room fight.” When his body was found, the size 12 shoes Lacy bought days before for school and had been wearing weren’t on his feet. Instead, he was found with white 10.5 sneakers on his feet. Also, the family says that police didn’t swab underneath Lacy’s fingernails for evidence of a possible scuffle with someone else. If that wasn’t enough, since Lacy’s funeral, his burial plot has been desecrated. The flowers placed there were taken and thrown on the side of the road near the cemetery, and a small hole was dug in the corner of his grave. So many red flags, and yet, District Attorney Jon David and the police in Bladenboro have ruled out foul play: “to date we have not received any evidence of criminal wrongdoing surrounding the death.” As the Guardian piece points out, Bladenboro is a town that’s about 80% white, 18% black, and is even called “Crackertown” by residents. About 86 people were hanged in Bladenboro between 1882 and 1968. And a couple of neighbors who eventually embraced Lacy (because he was a young man who had friends of all backgrounds), were once ordered by police to take down confederate flags and a sign that said “Ni**ers Keep Out” in front of their home a few years ago. They said that their own son had been pushed around by some kids and in a state of anger, the man of the house, Dewey Sykes, put the sign and flags up. Thinking back on his decisions, Sykes feels bad. “I regret it now.” Bladenboro is known for racial tension. - See more at: madamenoire/477695/need-know-lennon-lacy-17-year-old-teen-found-hanged-north-carolina-trailer-park/#sthash.UikWxCG6.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:33:51 +0000