Vicious crime in SC: Black man shot, 'body was dragged for several miles'

I was just IMing with Pam Spaulding when she sent me an article about a vicious "possible hate crime" in South Carolina. It sounds like the James Byrd murder. Her post is here:

We must weep at how the sickness of hate still flows freely. How can we, as human beings, do such things to one another?

The shooting death of a black man whose body was dragged for several miles is being investigated as a possible hate crime after the arrest of a white man he worked with, South Carolina's state police chief said.

Gregory Collins, 19, is charged with murder and made his first court appearance Thursday. No bond was set and he did not yet have an attorney, Newberry County Magistrate Ron Halfacre said.

...Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said Collins and Hill spent most of Tuesday together and were at Collins' mobile home late Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning when Hill was shot.

Foster said Collins then attached a nylon rope around Hill's body and began dragging it behind his truck, apparently until the rope snapped several miles later.

It's horrible. Just horrible.