By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
A white South Carolina man wanted to hire someone to kill and hang his black neighbor and then place a “flaming cross” in his yard.
Little did he know, the man he tried to hire turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, according tot he U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The Slate reports that Brandon Cory Lecroy, 25, was charged with solicitation to commit a crime of violence and use of interstate commerce facilities int he commission of murder-for-hire.
Police said the Greenwood County man found the undercover agent through a white supremacist group and offered $500 for the murder.
Lecroy told the agent he wanted “hang his neighbor from a tree” and have a “burning cross” staked in the front yard. Authorities said Lecroy even advised the agent of the best time to murder his neighbor and offered money for future murders.
Lecroy, who was arrested after he provided a $100 down payment to murder his neighbor, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
