Mississippi releases video of 1-year-old’s fatal police shooting

October 19, 2026 · 8:58 pm 3 sources

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• Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’
  The Guardian · October 19, 2026 20:58
  Officers responding to an alleged shoplifting call fired into the vehicle of Vellesiya Wiley, killing her son, Kohen On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was…
• Video footage of Kohen Wiley shooting released after toddler’s death deemed ‘justified’
  The Guardian · October 22, 2026 18:21
  ‘The word ‘justified’ have haunted me since Monday,’’ the child’s maternal grandmother says Since the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced on Monday that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old baby, “was justified”, footage of the shooting has been made public. It was…

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• Mississippi releases video of 1-year-old’s fatal police shooting
  Al Jazeera · October 23, 2026 14:15
  Mississippi released bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.