In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting Money from the Chicago area, came to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market to buy candy with his cousins while staying with his great-uncle, Moses "Mose" Wright. After Carolyn Bryant, a white store attendant, accused him of flirting with or otherwise offending her, store owner Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam, kidnapped Till from Wright's home in the early morning of August 28. According to the FBI, they brought him back to the store, then took him to the Shurden Plantation in Sunflower County, where he was beaten and shot with a .45 caliber pistol. They fastened a 75-pound gin fan to his neck with barbed wire and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River, where it was recovered three days after his abduction. Mamie Till demanded that her son's body be returned to Chicago for an open-casket funeral. Bryant and Milam were arrested, indicted for kidnapping and murder, and tried in Sumner, Mississippi, where Moses Wright identified them as the kidnappers and Mamie Till identified the body as her son's. On September 23, 1955, an all-white jury acquitted both men after sixty-seven minutes of deliberation. In January 1956, Look magazine published an interview in which both confessed to murdering Till, but they were never retried because of double jeopardy. The murder, the trial, and the public outrage that followed became a catalyst for the American civil rights movement, and Rosa Parks later said that when she refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, she thought of Emmett Till.