In a community that has been wracked by the agony of his brutal murder, believed to been racially motivated, a young girl stares quietly at the coffin of James Byrd Jr. during public visitations.
the Rev. Jesse Jackson comforts the victim's family outside their home. Jackson attended the vigil at birds church where he said ' it could've been any one of us. It means none of us are safe'.
A crowd collects outside the office of sheriff Billy Rowles where photos of a murder suspect suspects were taped on windows. The men allegedly changed a black hitchhiker to a pickup truck that dragged him to death.