dedmon's truck.and surges forward suddenly, running right over the defenseless man. take a look again as the approaching headlights glow on anderson's shirt then disappears under the truck. according to police dedmon, with two teenage girls as his passengers, drove to a local mcdonald's meeting up with the group. there according to witnesses interviewed by police he said, i ran that nigger over. >> he was not remorseful. he was laughing. laughing about the killing. >> reporter: later that morning, james craig anderson's family learned their 49-year-old brother and son died in what they thought was a hit-and-run. only later when witness statements were taken did they learn the real horror. winston thompson is the family's attorney. >> as the facts developed, it went from a bad situation to a much, much, much worse. this could -- at that time they were being told this could have been a racially motivated killing. >> reporter: now it appears there is no doubt. >> still in shock. still in disbelief. >> r

he was not there at the moment that deryl dedmon drove him over.leged to have participated in the beating. he is free on bond and awaiting the preliminary hearing. >> how does the defense make the case that this was not a racial hate crime? >> the defense for both of these kids have not answered any of our questions. have not returned any of our phone calls. we have one statement when one attorney who said that in court, i don't see where the prosecution can call this a racial crime. obviously, the testimony of the witnesses who were there all point to the fact that this started out as an attempt to go out and find a black guy to beat up and mess with. that was their words. >> let us know what happens to those teens. drew griffin, thank you. >>> just a couple of minutes here left before the closing bell. what are we 12 minutes away. the dow is up 103 points right now. but you ever wonder what is happening in niece final moments on the trading floor? take a look at this. >> you're hearing a lot of traders now yelling buy everything, buy everything.

. >> the other suspect is deryl dedmon accused of driving the truck.id that there was no proof of these racial allegations, and the other suspect aaron rice, a woman who identified herself as her mother, said that he didn't have anything to do with this. with that said, you have witnesses who claim to have heard them yell things out like white power, and we have the information from the police saying that from their investigation they found evidence that these people were driving around just looking for someone, someone who was black to, quote, mess with. i would imagine the family of mr. anderson, they have to be heartbroken in that they are dealing with the loss of this man who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> mr. anderson was, it was certainly unexpected and then to find out the manner which he was killed, you know, run over and then to later find out that this was a hate crime where these young people came in from a suburb of jackson, brandon, mississippi, specifically to mess with, i was putting it not nicely, a black person, and