“We consider the investigation closed,” the company said in a statement released late Tuesday. “We are honoring our commitment to make a $30,000 donation to assist with Victoria’s medical bills. We hope everyone keeps Victoria in their thoughts and prayers. She will certainly be in ours.”
Wilcher’s grandmother, Kelly Mullins, had said she was driving her granddaughter home from the hospital when they stopped at a KFC in Jackson, Mississippi, for sweet tea and mashed potatoes.
“They just told us, ‘We have to ask you to leave because her face is disrupting our customers,’” Mullins told WAPT-TV earlier this month. “[Victoria] understood exactly what they said.”
But Mullins and her granddaughter do not appear in surveillance video taken from the restaurant on the day of the alleged incident, according to the Laurel Leader-Call, and “no orders were recorded to include mashed potatoes and sweet tea on the same transaction.”