FBI Aiding Inquiry of Man’s Death After Police Encounter

In this July 11, 2015 photograph, sign of support for Jonathan Sanders, a black man who is believed to have died after a physical encounter with a white police officer, hangs on a corner in Stonewall, Miss. Jennifer Bozeman/The Clarke County Tribune, via AP

STONEWALL, Miss.—Some residents of a small Mississippi town say they’re still looking for answers a week after a black man died following a physical encounter with a white police officer.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that it is too soon to discuss how Jonathan Sanders died on the night of July 8 while he was exercising a horse on a two-wheeled buggy.

But local officials told a community meeting in Stonewall on Tuesday that the state and the FBI could hold a news conference in coming days to fill in some of the gaps in the official account Sanders’ death.

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