Kenyatta Lee Moorehead

How they died

Deadly force

Moorehead was accused of raping his ex-girlfriend of eight years last week, according to police. He was found dead in a home after a 3 1/2 hour standoff that began with gunfire exchanged between him and U.S. Marshals who had come to pick him up on three felony warrants. Authorities said he came out of a closet with a shotgun, and shots were fired. Whether Moorehead was injured in that exchange and later died, was shot later, or whether his fatal wounds were self-inflicted has not yet been released and is under investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Kenyatta Lee Moorehead, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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