Jakiyra Metcalf Case: Latest News, Timeline and Updates
Where the case stands
A Ring camera outside a Black Ole Miss student's apartment caught two white women making monkey noises and gestures outside her door. One, 18-year-old Alaina Kunes, apologized and withdrew from school this week. No criminal charges have been filed; the university's conduct investigation continues.
What happens next: There is no court date because no criminal case has been opened. Ole Miss's Office of Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct and its Office of Equal Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance are continuing to investigate; the university has said FERPA bars it from disclosing the outcome for any specific student, including whether the still-unidentified second woman faces discipline. Kunes has already withdrawn, which ends the university's leverage over her academically. Metcalf, Johnson and Caldwell have said they intend to remain enrolled.
People in this case
- Jakiyra Metcalf — subject
- Shawnboda Mead — Ole Miss Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, official
Timeline
- Ole Miss Student Kunes Apologizes, Withdraws After Racist Video
A Ring camera outside a Black Ole Miss student's apartment caught two white women making monkey noises and gestures outside her door. One, 18-year-old Alaina Kunes, apologized and withdrew from school this week. No criminal charges have been filed; the university's conduct investigation continues.
- One Accused Ole Miss Student Apologizes, Quits; Second Still Unidentified
One of two Ole Miss students caught on a doorbell camera making monkey noises outside a Black student's apartment has apologized and withdrawn from school. The second woman has not been identified — and, according to a roommate, kept making the gestures even after the apology.
- Ole Miss Student Confronts Woman Caught Making Racist Gestures On Camera
A Ring camera outside an Oxford, Mississippi apartment caught two women making ape noises and gestures at three Black Ole Miss students. One later apologized and withdrew from school; the other, still unidentified, is accused of continuing the gestures as the apology happened.
- Identified Woman Apologizes, Quits Ole Miss After Racist Video
A Ring camera outside an Ole Miss student's apartment caught two women making monkey noises and chest-beating gestures on Nov. 6. One of them, Alaina Kunes, has since identified herself, apologized and withdrawn from school — the second woman has not been named, and no criminal charges have been filed against anyone.
- Ring Camera Catches Racist Harassment Outside Ole Miss Student's Door
A Ring doorbell camera outside an Oxford apartment caught two women making monkey noises and chest-beating gestures as they passed the door of three Black Ole Miss students. The university says one of the women identified, Alaina Kunes, is "no longer a student."
- Ole Miss Investigates After Ring Camera Catches Racist Monkey Gestures Outside Black Students' Door
A Ring camera outside an Oxford, Mississippi apartment caught two women making monkey noises and gestures at the Black students who live there. Ole Miss says it is investigating — but no one has been charged, and no names have been released.