FOILED ‘$500 and He’s a Ghost’: White Man Wanted a Hit Man to Kill His Black Neighbor, Feds Allege

A white man thought he’d hired someone to murder his black neighbor and plant a “flaming cross” in his front yard—but the hit man turned out to be an undercover agent, according to federal authorities.

Brandon Cory Lecroy of Greenwood, South Carolina, was indicted on Tuesday after being accused of plotting to kill his neighbor. According to court documents, the 25-year-old asked an undercover agent who he thought was a hit man to hang the neighbor from a tree and put a “flaming cross” in his front yard. Lecroy, who was charged with murder for hire, is undergoing mental evaluation at a Massachusetts prison hospital as ordered by a federal judge, the Charleston Post and Courier reported.

In March, the Federal Bureau of Investigations was informed that Lecroy wanted to contact a white supremacist organization for advice on how to murder his black neighbor, according to an affidavit. An undercover agent recorded a call with Lecroy the next day.


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Southerners...they're incorrigible.

People are stupid. If you want to murder someone do it yourself!.

eddie wrote:People are stupid. If you want to murder someone do it yourself!.

Uumm...yeah.  I'll keep that in mind if the need ever arises.  

Original Quill wrote:

eddie wrote:People are stupid. If you want to murder someone do it yourself!.

Uumm...yeah.  I'll keep that in mind if the need ever arises.  

Hey, it’s a good rule of thumb mate!

Murder him cos he's black. Hang him and burn cross in his garden. Back to the KKK.

Disgusting, nasty bastard, hope he gets locked away for a long time.

magica wrote:Murder him cos he's black. Hang him and burn cross in his garden. Back to the KKK.

Disgusting, nasty bastard, hope he gets locked away for a long time.

I lean toward your direction, but watch what happens.  It's South Carolina, after all.  Remember the Travon Martin case, just to the south in rural Florida?

The guy will walk.

Original Quill wrote:

magica wrote:Murder him cos he's black. Hang him and burn cross in his garden. Back to the KKK.

Disgusting, nasty bastard, hope he gets locked away for a long time.

I lean toward your direction, but watch what happens.  It's South Carolina, after all.  Remember the Travon Martin case, just to the south in rural Florida?

The guy will walk.

Yes probably because prejudice still happens in the southern states.

He had to be an idiot to even think he could get somebody bumped off for $500...

Everyone knows that no respectable hitman would even consider getting out of bed in the morning for less than $10k..