White man kills white woman after she tries to flee KKK ritual

No honor amongst criminals.

This photo provided by St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office shows Raymond Foster, the head of a Ku Klux Klan chapter from Bogalusa, La. Foster was booked into St. Tammany Parish jail in Covington, La., with second-degree murder charges in the death of a woman in rural St. Tammany Parish on Monday after she tried to back out of a KKK initiation ritual. (AP Photo/St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have identified an Oklahoma woman fatally shot in Louisiana after a Ku Klux Klan initiation. The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s office said Wednesday that the woman was 43-year-old Cynthia C. Lynch of Tulsa.

Sheriff Jack Strain says Lynch had been recruited over the Internet to come to Louisiana, join a Klan faction, then return to Oklahoma to sign up more members.

But authorities say she asked to be taken back to town from the ritual site in a rural area.

Strain says a fight followed and Lynch was shot Sunday.

One person has been booked on a second-degree murder charge. Seven others face charges related to covering up the shooting.