Mississippi Man Shot After Cross Burning in Yard

JACKSON, Miss. — Aug 19, 2014,

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press

    A Mississippi sheriff says a man was beaten and shot two weeks after calling authorities to report a cross burning in his yard, and investigators are trying to determine whether the attack was prompted by people being upset that the man was visited by his mixed-race grandchildren.

   Deputies were called to a disturbance Friday night in a rural community outside Raleigh. Craig Wilson, 45, had been shot in the stomach and beaten and was taken to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton. He was in fair condition Tuesday, a hospital spokesman said.

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