Was she lynched? : High-profile civil rights lawyer Ben Crump says suicide ruling on black girl, 16, found hanging in woods hours after being attacked by five white teens defies common sense
The body of Mikayla Miller, 16, was purportedly found hanging from a tree in woods near her home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts on April 17
The previous evening she had become embroiled in an altercation with five white teens
The medical examiner has ruled the death a suicide
Miller was found with a thin black belt around her neck; her family say she owned no such item
They refuse to believe Miller s death was the result of suicide; attorney Ben Crump is now representing the family
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HOPKINTON, Mass. A Massachusetts medical examiner’s office has ruled that Mikayla Miller, a Black teenager whose body was found near her home in a Boston suburb last month, died by suicide.
On Tuesday, the Hopkinton Town Clerk’s Office received notification from the medical examiner’s office and issued Miller’s death certificate, which listed her death as asphixia by hanging and the manner of death as suicide.
Miller, 16, was found dead on April 18 in a wooded area by a jogger roughly a mile from her home in Hopkinton. The Middlesex County District Attorney s Office had previously said the death was not suspicious
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Hopkinton teen Mikayla Miller’s mother will be part of a virtual news conference Wednesday with attorney Ben Crump and other community leaders to demand further investigation after her death was ruled a suicide.
Crump, a civil rights attorney, has represented the family of George Floyd and other Black people who have died at the hands of police and vigilantes. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Mikayla Miller died from asphyxia by hanging, according to a death certificate filed by the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The 16-year-old was found suspended from a tree near a town path on the morning of April 18, according to a search warrant.