A 21-year-old Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland was found dead on Monday, Sept. 15, on the college campus, prompting the police into action. However, the victim’s family suspects mishandling of the case.
Identified as Demartravion “Trey” Reed, of Grenada, Mississippi, the Delta State’s Director of Public Safety Mike Peeler announced that the victim’s body was found hanging from a tree near the central campus pickleball courts just after 7 a.m. local time. Three days later, the Cleveland Police Department released a statement, determining the cause of death to be “hanging” and the manner of death as “suicidReed’s family has alleged that they received a different statement from the Grenada County Sheriff’s Department about the location of Trey’s dead body. “The Grenada County Sheriff’s Department arrived at Trey’s family’s home…at approximately 9:15, and informed the family that Trey was found dead in his dorm room, in his bed,” lawyer Vanessa Jones told Mississippi Free Press on Sept. 16.
