The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by a Mississippi police officer who fired at a vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call was a “justified” use of force, the state attorney general said Monday.
\n\nAttorney General Lynn Fitch’s office issued the brief statement four months after Kohen Wiley was killed when a police officer opened fire on a car that police said was fleeing from a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia.
\n\n“Today, the Office of the Attorney General announced it has completed the review of a June 14, 2026 incident in Senatobia involving one officer with the Senatobia Police Department,” the AG’s office said in the statement. “In this incident, the Attorney General’s Office found the use of force was justified.”
\n\nThe Mississippi Bureau of Investigation conducted the investigation.
\n\nThere was no immediate response from Wiley’s family, which has for months been taking part in protests demanding justice for the slain boy in the small town 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee.
\n\nThe deadly shooting happened after the responding officers arrived at Walmart and saw “two subjects and a juvenile child fleeing from the store into a vehicle,” the MBI said.
\n\nKohen’s mother, whom her lawyer identified as Vellesiya…
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