Mississippi AG Clears Officer in Fatal Shooting of 1-Year-Old at Senatobia Walmart

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced this week that no charges will be filed against a Senatobia Police Department officer who fired on a car outside a Walmart on June 14, 2026, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. Fitch said her office completed its review and found the use of force justified. Body camera and surveillance video show five officers running out of the store after being told a shoplifter was trying to drive away. They surrounded a silver sedan and repeatedly shouted for the driver to stop. The driver, a friend of Wiley's mother, drove forward and nearly hit an officer, and one officer then opened fire. Police said Wiley was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Attorney Ben Crump said the boy's mother and her friend deny shoplifting.

Right-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing, while left-leaning and alternative outlets had. Alternative outlets lead with challenges to the ruling: Truthout calls the shooting part of a pattern of racist police violence against Black residents of Senatobia, and Straight Arrow News says footage appears to show shots fired from the side of the car. Left-leaning CBS News focuses on the video sequence, Fitch's statement and Crump's account.