David Garrett

Death by Force

On April 17, 1946, David Garrett, a white male storekeeper in Aiken, South Carolina, was brutally murdered in his shop. The assailant, Monroe Hickson, an African American man also known by the alias "Blue Boy," attacked Garrett with an axe, killing him and stealing a pistol and $22 in cash. This act marked the beginning of a violent spree that would claim multiple lives over the following months.

Eleven days later, on April 28, 1946, Hickson used the stolen pistol to fatally shoot Mary B ...Read More