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http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/26307388/family-says-hate-crime
Of course, the man charged with the beating/shooting has a whole different take on what happened:
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...n-smith-co-cross-burning-speaks-out/14308959/
Craig Wilson's sister says Craig was brutally attacked by a relative for allowing his mixed-race grandchildren to stay at his home over the weekend.
The family tells us his stepson, with his son, came to Wilson's property screaming racist remarks at the family. The stepson, Jeff Daniels, and Craig Wilson allegedly got into a heated argument over his grandchildren. The family claims they threatened him, then beat him before shooting Wilson in the stomach...
"Yes, they called him some severe names and then they told him to leave and they chased him off his porch around his house and beat him with brass knuckles and shot him with his own gun," said Julie Wilson, the victim's sister.
Of course, the man charged with the beating/shooting has a whole different take on what happened:
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...n-smith-co-cross-burning-speaks-out/14308959/
A burning cross was left in the yard of a Smith County couple, and though the couple says 37-year-old Jeff Daniels did it, Daniels insists he knows nothing about it.
"I didn't know nothing about no cross," Daniels, who spent three nights in the Smith County Jail for a charge of aggravated assault, said at his home in Raleigh on Tuesday...
Daniels said when he approached the house, Wilson came toward him with a gun. Daniels grabbed the hand holding the gun, and they fell to the ground. "I'm thinking, 'If I can knock him out, I can get the gun and put it in my pocket, so I knocked him about six times hard," he recalled.