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(Athens, Tennessee) The FBI is expected to join local and state investigators later this week in hunting down whoever burned a cross at the home of a gay Athens man.
The Meigs County Sheriff's Department said federal investigators were called in to help determine if the burning were a hate crime.
If it is, said Sheriff Walter Hickman, it could warrant federal charges.
"Right now we are looking at all angles," Hickman told the The Daily Post-Athenian newspaper. "It's a concern because it's a crime."
The flaming cross was discovered by Brandon Waters on his front lawn.
Waters said that the cross was about 7 feet tall and a hate message bearing homophobic epithets was found nearby.
Waters said he has no doubt that the cross burning was a hate message, targeting him because he is gay.
"There are a lot of people that don't approve of it," the 23-year-old Waters told The Post-Athenian. "They are always bashing us. It makes me fearful of what could happen. I just want to live my life."
Tennessee state fire officials arrived in Athens on Monday.
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