Greenwood Police Department has charged a second suspect with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a Greenwood man outside a vape shop earlier this month.
Malcolm Kohn, 25, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service last Wednesday and was held at the Shelby County Jail in Memphis, Tennessee. He was then extradited to Mississippi and booked by Greenwood police Friday afternoon, when authorities charged him with murder in connection with the shooting death of Greenwood resident Joshua Brewer.
Kohn is now being held at the Leflore County Jail on a $1 million bond.
On the evening of Aug. 4, 26-year-old Brewer was seated in his parked car in front of a vape shop located next to the Walmart in Greenwood when he was shot around 8 p.m.
Brewer drove himself to Greenwood Leflore Hospital and was briefly treated there before being transported by ambulance en route to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
However, he ended up being admitted to UMMC’s hospital in Lexington, where he was pronounced dead early in the morning on Aug. 5.
On Aug. 6, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Kohn in connection with Brewer’s death.
The Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force of the Marshals Service took on the case as a fugitive investigation. Once it was determined Kohn was in Memphis, a task force of the Marshals Service based there, Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force, was brought onto the case.
That task force, along with a team from the Memphis Police Department, arrested Kohn on the 900 block of Greer Street in Memphis. Kohn, however, is reported to have lived on the 200 block of McLemore Street in Greenwood, according to the local jail docket.
A Greenwood woman, Colbie Saulsberry, 25, was arrested by Greenwood police Aug. 7 and was the first to be charged with murder in connection with Brewer’s death.
She also remained at the Leflore County Jail as of Monday afternoon on a $1 million bond.
Greenwood Interim Police Chief Clifton King declined to provide any comment other than to say anyone who has more information on the case is encouraged to call the Greenwood-Leflore-Carroll County Crime Stoppers line at 1-800-222-8477 to provide an anonymous tip.
King said that calls to Crime Stoppers have assisted authorities in their investigation.
The Marshals Service’s apprehension of Kohn last week also marks the second reported time this year the federal law enforcement agency assisted authorities in Greenwood and Leflore County in arresting murder suspects.
Last month, the Marshals Service arrested a 22-year-old Greenwood man, Charlie Theautry Allen Ivory, in connection with the June 16 fatal shooting of Samar Gary at the Triple Stop gas station located on Mississippi 430 in Greenwood.
The Marshals Service’s Gulf Coast task force tracked Ivory at an apartment on Browning Road just outside of Greenwood.
With assistance from the Leflore County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, authorities surrounded the apartment building, and the Marshals Service arrested Ivory July 17. The Sheriff’s Department charged Ivory with murder in connection with Gary’s death.
- Gerard Edic is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. Contact him at 662-581-7237 or gedic@gwcommonwealth.com.
