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The FBI (web) and Carter County Sheriff's Department are investigating a claim by a black Ardmore man who says a group of men tried to lynch him in southern Oklahoma. The man's name hasn't been released.
Deputies say he told them he was traveling to Milo in northwestern Carter County on May 25th when he stopped to help a farmer round up stray cattle from the road.
He says as helped move the cattle four white men appeared and accused him of stealing the and began trying to lynch him.
The man says another man then drove up in a pickup truck and fired shots into the air and the four attackers left.
Carter County Sheriff Ken Grace says he takes the allegations very seriously and is trying to find the farmer and the driver of the pickup who fired into the air.
Grace says the victim didn't report the incident until May 28th when her told deputies he saw one of the attackers at a Wal-Mart in Ardmore.
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