FBI awaits autopsy in hanging of black man in Mississippi

A Mississippi sheriff said Friday that a black man found hanging from a tree did not appear to have stepped off of anything before he died, AP reported.
Sheriff Marvin Lucas Sr. told The Associated Press on Friday that the body was found Thursday hanging by a bed sheet from a tree limb about 12 feet (four meters) high, and that his feet were dangling about two feet (70 centimeters) off the ground. The hands on the body were not bound, he said.
The results of an autopsy to determine whether the death was homicide or suicide could take days, Lucas said.
The hanging is being investigated by the FBI, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney's office as well as the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.