Thursday, June 18, 2026 - A little boy in a car with his mum and aunt was k!lled by a police officer who opened fire on their vehicle.
Kohen Kartier Wiley, 1, was shot and k!lled by a Mississippi
police officer who was responding to an alleged shoplifting
incident at Walmart.
Officers from the Senatobia Police Department said the boy’s
mum and aunt had been driving "in the direction of officers" before
they opened fire.
A statement from the police department appears to show that
officers knew that a child was in the car when they responded to the
scene.
"Upon arrival, officers encountered two subjects and a
child fleeing from the store into a vehicle. Officers attempted to stop the
vehicle, but the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking
one," the department said.
"An officer then discharged their weapon, and the
vehicle fled the scene. The subjects arrived at a local hospital, where one
juvenile child in the vehicle was pronounced deceased, and another subject had
critical injuries. No law enforcement officers received any serious physical
injury."
One witness said he saw the police waiting in the parking
lot as the two women left Walmart, one holding a box of diapers and the other
holding baby Kohen.
Another witness said: "I saw the officers take off running, not in
the car, I’m talking about on foot, and these are the Sheriffs and the
police.
"They’re running through the parking lot, and I see the car take off,
you know, so in my head, I’m like, I know they’re not chasing the car, they
don’t think they’re going to catch the car.
"Then I hear gunshots, and I’m like, I know they’re not shooting at a
car that’s leaving in a public place, this is Walmart."
Carolyn Stokes, baby Kohen’s great-grandmother, told WREG: "Senatobia
Police Department get away with too much stuff.
"I hear about it all the time, it’s in the news all the time, y’all
probably down here all the time, recording this stuff, but it’s just too
much."
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