ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM FREE! FRIDAY | JULY 8, 2016 Questions resurface about Hickman texts Man claims sexually explicit texts with superintendent are real Lashley, in the INSIDE recording, de- ■ OUR VIEW: Hickman must go. BY ZACK PLAIR past. In a phone interview with a former reporter, who said nies the man’s PAGE 6A
[email protected] The Dispatch earlier in the day, she received it Thursday from accusations that ONLINE Lashley said he and Hickman Lashley’s email address. Lash- he was seeking ■ AUDIO: Listen to the alleged A former Columbus resident media attention, phone conversation between Hick- had exchanged the text mes- ley is a 2005 Columbus High man and Lashley at cdispatch.com. is claiming that sexual text sages that Hickman has public- School graduate, who works as citing that he messages Columbus Municipal specifically re- ly called phony. a hair stylist in Atlanta accord- Hickman School District Superintendent The Dispatch reached out ing to his Facebook page. buffed previous High School boys’ basketball Philip Hickman once decried to Lashley after an audio re- In the recording, which requests from The Dispatch for coach Luther Riley. as fake are actually real. cording surfaced of two men Lashley told The Dispatch doc- an interview. “I don’t want people looking A man identifying himself as discussing issues presumably uments a phone conversation Lashley did allude to copies at me like I’m trying to break LaVuntae’ Lashley said in a text related to previous media cov- between him and Hickman, of the text messages being sent up folks’ homes and stuff, when to The Dispatch Thursday that erage of the text exchanges.