Two competing theories have been floated: Either Tyus Byrd, who faced mass resignations when she was elected as the city’s first black mayor in 2015, was deliberately targeted, or the fires were deliberately set to cover up questionable financial activity that has recently faced scrutiny from state auditors.
Nearly all of the commercial buildings in downtown Parma, Mo., are shuttered. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 22 at 6:32 AM Something strange is happening in Parma, Mo., a city of under 700 people in the state’s impoverished Bootheel region.
Five days later, who started the twin infernos — and why — remains a mystery. No arrests have been made, and the sheriff’s department has no strong leads, Stevens told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday. It was less than a year after the unrest in Ferguson, which is located about three hours away. Parma, which is roughly two-thirds white and one-third black, became a trending hashtag. All of the employees who had resigned, critics were quick to note, had been white.
Then, just after midnight on Wednesday, the New Madrid County Sheriff’s Department received a call about a fire at Byrd’s home. No one was home at the time, officials said, and Byrd’s father, Simon Wofford, told KFVS that she had been taking a shower at his house when she got the news. “I think there is absolutely, positively nothing to that,” Allen Hampton, who has been an alderman since 2017 and is white, told The Post on Thursday. “It could have been set up to be portrayed as a hate crime, but that would not be correct.” He pointed out that Williamson is also black.
Byrd has yet to comment on the audit, but had previously raised questions about bookkeeping practices that were in place when she was first elected in 2015. She told the Post-Dispatch she had initially been unable to find financial statements, meeting minutes and other official documents, then later learned that Kim Hampton, the city’s longtime treasurer, had been storing them in a fireproof safe at the cotton gin where she worked.
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