Officials at Delta State University in Mississippi said Wednesday that a full autopsy is being conducted on the body of Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a 21-year-old Black student who was found hanging from a tree on campus.

The 2,700-student school in Cleveland, Mississippi, has maintained that no evidence of foul play has been found thus far. Reed’s family has retained prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump and is pushing for answers and an independent investigation.

The university's president and its police chief faced questions Wednesday about how it was determined that no foul play was involved after Reed's body was discovered Monday hanging near the campus's pickleball courts.

Reed's death comes as families of other Black men who have been found hanging in Mississippi and were dete

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