In March 2012, Dedmon, John Rice and Dylan Butler pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and conspiracy charges. Dedmon was convicted of murder in state court in 2012 and sentenced to two concurrent terms of life imprisonment.
Īnderson's family asked that the perpetrators of the murder be spared the death penalty. They each pleaded guilty and received federal sentences.
Eventually, all 10 persons were indicted for various combinations of these crimes. Anderson's murder was classified as a racially motivated hate crime. The FBI conducted a high-profile civil rights investigation of Anderson's murder it led to indictments of 10 persons, including Dedmon, for a conspiracy of several hate crimes against African Americans in Jackson committed from the spring of 2011 to March 2012. A motel security camera showed Dedmon and his associates, as well as Dedmon running Anderson over with his truck. At the time of his death, Anderson was working on the assembly line at the Nissan plant in Canton, and raising an adopted son with his partner.Īccording to police, Dedmon and his friends, a group of white teenagers, robbed and repeatedly beat Anderson before Dedmon ran him over, causing fatal injuries. James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old African American man who was murdered in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi on June 26, 2011, by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon of Brandon.
