Police shooting of a 1-year-old Mississippi boy ignites tension between police and Black residents
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the shooting, and police have placed the officer on leave as protests and accountability calls grow.
- On June 14, 2026, Senatobia Police Department Sergeant Hunter Foster fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley in a Mississippi Walmart parking lot during a response to an alleged shoplifting call.
- Tensions between police and Black residents have simmered for years in Senatobia, with activists citing a 2023 arrest of a 10-year-old boy as evidence of systemic misconduct.
- Vellesiya Wiley disputed the official account, stating she tried to show officers her son before they fired; policing expert Ian Adams noted shooting into moving vehicles is 'a very bad idea' by modern standards.
- More than 200 protesters gathered at Senatobia City Hall where police deployed tear gas, while the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation placed Foster on administrative leave pending a nine-month investigation.
- Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the Wiley family as the case draws comparisons to other police-involved deaths, with advocates emphasizing that 'the sacredness of human life' must guide police encounters.
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The police had moved out of the 8000-inhabitant town because of a suspected shoplifting of diapers. Then there were the fatal shots. Many questions are open to the events. The case exacerbates the tensions between black residents and the police.
Protestors call for arrest of Mississippi officer after 1-year-old fatally shot outside Walmart
A Mississippi police officer has been placed on administrative leave after an officer-involved shooting at a Walmart in the town of Senatobia left a 1-year-old child dead.
Sergeant Hunter Foster Linked to Baby Kohen Wiley's Death Had Prior Misconduct Complaint
Sergeant Hunter Foster of the Senatobia Police Department has been named in public records and independently confirmed by FOX13 Memphis as the officer involved in the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley on 14 June 2026. The toddler was killed when an officer fired into a silver sedan in the car park of a Walmart on US Highway 51 in Senatobia, Mississippi, during a response to a shoplifting call. A family friend travelling in the sam…
Authorities reported that a one-year-old infant was killed after a police officer fired at a vehicle in northern Mississippi while responding to a store robbery report. The circumstances surrounding the incident in the small town of Senatobia, Tate County, remain unclear. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation stated that officers from the Senatobia Police Department responded to a call and found two people and a child fleeing the store into a …
A one-year-old baby, Kohen Wiley, was killed by Mississippi police during an intervention on 14 June. This drama, filmed in the parking lot of a supermarket, provokes a wave of national outrage while an independent investigation must shed light on these deadly shots.
Shooting ignites tensions in small Mississippi town | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
JACKSON, Miss. -- The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by police who were responding to a shoplifting call this past weekend has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the small town of Senatobia, Miss.
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