He and Wheeler Parker went into a local store where then 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant Donham worked.
Parker later testified that Till whistled at the woman. Bryant Donham testified in court that not only did Till whistle at her, but he also grabbed her and made a vulgar comment.
Two nights later, Emmett Till was abducted, tortured and murdered by a group of gun-toting men in a 1955 green and white Chevy pickup.
Then they tied a cotton gin fan to the boy’s neck with barbed wire and threw his naked body into a bayou that fed the Tallahatchie River.
Bryant Donham is 88 years old now. And she has never publicly commented on the case.
But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.
“This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she said.
