Red

Full Name

Red

Victim Profile

Red

Name Variations

Riley Corley

Biography

On July 6, 1913, “Red,” a potential alias for Riley Corley, 33 years old, was lynched near Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama by two white men, Kirby Bush and C.F. Moody, after being accused of shooting another African American man earlier in the day. Bush and Moody killed Corley instantaneously, shooting him through the right eye with a shot gun. Prior to being lynched, Corley was a newcomer to the Brookwood area, having worked for a year as a laborer on a local turpentine farm. Based on Corley’s occupation as a turpentine farmer, the description of both Red and Corley’s
location of deaths as “Near Brookwood,” and an initial preliminary trial of Red’s murderers by a Justice of Peace in the northern end of Tuscaloosa County (when Brookwood is in eastern Tuscaloosa County), the following triangular geographical range has been assumed for where Red could have potentially been killed.

Documented or Attempted

Documented

Birth Date

Circa 1880

County of Birth; County of Death

N/A; Tuscaloosa County

Death Date

July 15, 1913

Race

Black

Sex

Male

Researchers

Teni Ciby

Case Number

AMP541-19130715-000

Identified by:

Alabama Memory Project