a quick summary of the upcoming three part story of his death:

stretch was out and about, getting some things for his brothers & nephew. a white woman had tripped in front of him and her belongings fell on the ground. stretch quickly rushed to help her up and with her things. what he didn’t know is that she’d stolen some items. out of fear of being caught as eyes were upon them both, she screamed that he was touching her inappropriately. her husband was nearby and stretch, out of fright for his life, ran away.

what he didn’t know was that the husband had followed him home & brought some friends. casper was inside the house and the other two were behind, doing some work in the backyard. the husband asked for stretch to just come out so they could talk about it. stretch knew it wouldn’t be good to just stay inside so he told casper that he’d be back & if he heard anything, he needed to run and not look back. casper was scared but still wasn’t sure what was going on.

stretch walked outside & casper, being the curious innocent boy he is, decided to see what was going on for himself so he went toward the window and watched out of sight. obviously, the white men had no want to talk and just wanted a ‘nigger’s blood to spill’. but they wanted to teach him a lesson so instead of shooting him… they shot the house up first.

the next thing anyone would hear was the scream of a little boy being hit by a barrage of bullets. stretch saw red and rushed the men immediately but was gunned down. stinkie and fatso came inside to see what happened. the last thing casper would see as a living human was the frightened faces of his uncles.

his uncles did manage to kill the husband, but they also were gunned down. and since they couldn’t leave any proof, they burned down the house as well after dumping the three bodies back inside. 

the rage that was felt by the trio is what caused them to become the chaotic poltergeists that they are. however, the innocence of casper allowed him to just become a gentle spectral being, still bound to the earth because of it not being his time to go.

and that’s that.