June 22, 2026
1 Year Old Fatally Shot By Police Over Report Of Stolen Diapers
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RSS Feed The Mississippi family of a one year old boy shot and killed by police is asking for the release of the officer’s body cam footage, as well as the dash camera and store surveillance video. Police maintain little Kohen Wiley’s mother and her friend were trying to get away in their vehicle after a shoplifting call when the car veered towards the officer who fired the fatal shots. The big question was the car moving away from or towards the officer?
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Monday, June twenty second, and a family in Mississippi is demanding that police release body cam video because they think it might help answer a question about why an officer fired into a moving car, killing a one year old. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. What what robes? Such an unnecessary event this was? And then when you hear what it was over it makes it in some way worse.
00:00:37
Speaker 2: Oh my god, when you actually get into the details of what we know happened, it is sickening. I was reading it at every detail just made me feel worse and worse because yes, this all took place earlier this month, on June fourteenth, and it all happened or unfolded in a Walmart parking lot. This is in Senatobia, Mississippi.
00:01:02
Speaker 1: It's about a nine to even hour drive south of Memphis.
00:01:06
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yees. So you know the area fairly well.
00:01:09
Speaker 2: And so police got a shoplifting call and they responded to the scene and what was reported having been stolen.
00:01:19
Speaker 1: Diapers is the report. So the story and what we're talking about here is a one year old child is dead after a shoplifting call about diapers and we get into the detailed herobes. It is a they said, they said right. There are two different sides of this story and about what was a threat and what the officer should and shouldn't have been able to do. But the family is now demanding that the city release the bodycam video, which they have not yet. This June fourteenth is when this incident took place, and Robes the call comes in and we can tell you what at least authorities say took place once they arrived in Robes. I mean, I don't know. It seems like they felt like they encountered people who were fleeing in some way.
00:02:16
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is I'll do the exact I'll give the exact police description of what happened. So this is from the police statement. Law enforcement officials or officers responded to a shoplifting call at Walmart on US fifty one. Upon arrival, officers encountered two subjects and a juvenile 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. 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 officer has received any serious physical injury.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: I mean, they're saying, Robes that the shooting, at least in their mind right now, was justified or at least giving the reason for it. They're saying, whoever was driving that car turned it into a deadly weapon and was attacking an officer essentially, Isn't that what they're saying.
00:03:24
Speaker 3: That is exactly what they're saying.
00:03:26
Speaker 2: And look, we both know that for an officer to fire into a moving vehicle is a major, major no.
00:03:36
Speaker 1: No, that's a huge no no.
00:03:38
Speaker 2: You don't do it for multiple reasons because a you don't know who is in the car, you don't know who is around the car. Firing into a moving vehicle creates a lot of possible and maybe even probable unnecessary injuries and or deaths.
00:03:55
Speaker 3: It's just too risky to do, and.
00:03:57
Speaker 1: That it's such a high bar for being justified and doing so. And certainly a car that's driving away, you would have to justify that that vehicle and whoever's in it is an immediate threat to the community. You can't justify that necessarily. The other thing is that if the car is coming at you and it's a threat to you, yes you're justified. But they also teach officers all the time don't stand in front of a moving vehicle. So it just shouldn't happen. Robes and it looks cool in the movies, right, the super cool cop, the star of the movie car going away, firing at the car and maybe hits the gas tank and it blows all that stuff. That No, that's not what police officers are taught to do.
00:04:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is incredibly tragic. You know, you've got a mom, the mom's friend and a one year old little boy with a box of diapers a bag of diapers in their car. Whether or not they stole those diapers is.
00:04:55
Speaker 3: Still in question.
00:04:56
Speaker 2: We can get into that in a moment, because they have made statements about this. But the idea that there was a woman fighting for her life and an infant, a one year old dead because an officer looked. We need that bodycam footage, and we know from the family they want the bodycam footage from the police officers they want the dash cam footage from the police vehicles, and they want the surveillance video from the Walmart parking lot. It seems as if with all of those things combined we can get the answer, because the question is were they fleeing the scene, were they trying to get away, or were they driving into and towards an officer. They claim they were trying to get away, and the officer who shot and fired at the vehicle is claiming that they were aiming for him.
00:05:45
Speaker 1: And Robes, you just said, though this is or it seems like it should be a knowable answer. Yes, it seems like there can. There should be in evidence of this. Now the other it could come out, and then there'll be different sides interpreting the same thing with our eyes differently. That's possible, But Robes, it's still how do we get how do this incident rise to the level that Diapers, which we should say a friend of the family is said absolutely not. She wasn't stealing and also she didn't witness sidy crime. She didn't have anything to do with anything. And Robes she they even described that the family came out and the mom was kind of playing with the kid like they weren't running or in a hurry, because they were kind of playing around.
00:06:34
Speaker 2: So they said that they were not running from the store, that no one stole anything, and that they were casually walking to their vehicle, that this was not a situation in which they were the way it was described, certainly in the police report, it made it seem as if they were racing out of the store and trying to get away from officials while stealing some diapers.
00:06:54
Speaker 3: That is not what they described at all.
00:06:57
Speaker 2: And so look, the other question was their attorney, a very notable attorney, Ben Crump, said, why didn't the police just let the car go and take down the license plate number? I mean, this isn't some massive heist. Even if let's say they stole the diapers. It's a bag of diapers. Yes, that is a crime. Yes that is punishable, but it's not as if it's some urgent, imminent danger to the community. If these two women with a one year old get away in that moment, right the damn license plate down, I mean, why wouldn't that be the protocol?
00:07:32
Speaker 1: The only way it's possible is if that vehicle was coming directly towards him, and he felt like his life was threatened. That has to be it, because nothing else makes sense. You're just because you see two people run out of a store where a shop lifting call came from and get in a car and start driving away. You're not a cowboy. You can't start firing at the car. That's just not what you do. Only way Rose he this video has to show this vehicle coming at him.
00:08:06
Speaker 2: And this is why police need to always have bodycam footage, because we would never know if it weren't for that footage. Because that is what we're gonna know. The angle the police officer was standing at, we're gonna know what he was saying.
00:08:19
Speaker 3: Was he angry?
00:08:20
Speaker 2: Was he telling them to stop and they didn't, and he was pissed off about it, Like we don't know what happened in the moments before he decided to fire, and at what point the car was coming towards him or at him. And look, this is another interesting point because the autopsy on this little one year old is being done right now, and the angles at which the bullets struck the child, they were saying, we'll absolutely be able to see if it was straight on, if it was head on, that would be the officer feeling like, yes, that vehicle was coming at him, but if the bullets were at an angle, it would it would absolutely suggest something different. So that is certainly a fascinating part of this case. There are going to be answers from the autopsy and from the surveillance footage as well. They are going to be able to at least get some answers right now. But in the meantime, there are a lot of angry members of the.
00:09:16
Speaker 1: Community, of course, and understandably so. And this is down in the Mississippi Delta and the part of the country where, yes, you do have riffs and black communities and riffs between those communities and the police, and this is continuing that thing. Meanwhile, they have not and people are demanding and wanting to know. But we don't know the identity of the officer or officers involved, but they are on leave at this point. The investigation is ongoing, but they are telling us that the bodycam video and other video a part of the investigation rope, is not going to be released until the investigation is done, so we don't know when that might be. Obviously, the police chief and the mayor have the authority to release video ahead of time while an investigation is going on, if they believe it serves the public good and the public interest, and this certainly would seem to be one of those cases. But the city did have a message for the community, and that community was please stay calm. We'll let you hear it when we come backstare.
00:10:28
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where there are some very angry and concerned residents and certainly a grieving family. In Mississippi, a one year old little boy was shot by police in a Walmart parking lot. They shot at a moving vehicle. In that vehicle was that little boy's mom, her friend, and police claim they had a stolen bag of diapers inside that vehicle. According to police, they claimed that that vehicle was headed toward an officer who felt threatened and that is why shots were fired. But the woman, the friend who was driving, was critically injured. And yes, that little one year old boy is dead. And there is a community and a family that is demanding answers. They want the videos from the police officers, the dash cam, the bodycam, the surveillance footage.
00:11:24
Speaker 3: But there have been demonstrations.
00:11:26
Speaker 2: That Walmart parking lot has a massive Mayship memorial, and there have been a lot of angry protesters, so much so tear gas has actually had to be released in moments when things have gotten that I don't want to say violent, but certainly charged.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just say, this is one of those where the community needs answers right now, and that video is what robes and whatever is on it could further inflame things if the community sees it, but it could also have a justification for the shooting. What do you do with something like this world it's it's sometimes the community and the police, whatever relationship they already had just gets ignited. This didn't this isn't new stuff necessarily, this is brought to the surface.
00:12:17
Speaker 2: This is pouring gas on a on a flame that's always been there, but now it's burning brightly. And the attorney again Ben Crump, for the family, said this, it's to your point they have to get this footage out quickly because they say, if it's the truth what police are saying, if it happened the way they said it happened, then show us that the longer you delay releasing the video, the more distrustful we become.
00:12:43
Speaker 1: Yes, you told us what happened. Let us show you, show the family, show Ben Crump and let them come out and speak. But that makes perfect sense. What are you hiding? You want me to take your word for it. I don't have to. You can prove to me that what you're saying is true.
00:13:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, And here's the deal.
00:13:03
Speaker 2: The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation says, no comment. They're not going to even comment on what the videos investigators may have. They won't say whether or not if they have those videos, whether or not they would.
00:13:17
Speaker 3: Be released, when they'd be released, if at all.
00:13:20
Speaker 2: So just by saying nothing, that is the moment where people are going to get louder. They want to be heard and they have a right to get some answers in an already distrustful community.
00:13:33
Speaker 1: And to that point, the city put out a statement to his residence saying the investigation conigues, but quote our focus remains on ensuring that the facts are thoroughly examined and that accurate information to share through the appropriate official channels. We understand that emotions are high and that many questions remain. We respectfully ask our community to avoid speculation and the spread of unverified information. Whe they understand This is a community on edge to a great degree right now, and every day they don't get more answers. Robes, it looks like there's something to hide.
00:14:11
Speaker 3: Yes, and that makes a lot of sense.
00:14:14
Speaker 2: And you think about I mean, just put yourself in that mother's position. I mean, it's outrageous. This is two unarmed women with a baby and a bag of allegedly stolen diapers. Shots never needed to be fired unless you can show a video or some sort of proof that somehow these two women were revving their car and aiming for an officer in the middle of a Walmart parking.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: And that could very well be the case. Robes, just show us.
00:14:45
Speaker 3: Yes, and look.
00:14:48
Speaker 2: This. You know, and I know that Ben Crump is known for being a bit of a wordsmith, and he's covered and certainly represented many families in similar situations. But I did think what he said was very powerful. When speaking to reporters, he said they were called over a box of diapers, and a family now has to bury their baby. You cannot put those two things next to each other and call it reasonable policing. I really, that is the crux of it. We're talking about a report of stolen diapers and the outcome is a dead one year old and a critically injured woman and a grieving mother who will never be the same.
00:15:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not just an unfortunate accident or you know, weird circumstances. That's poor decision making and that's poor policing. Show the video still robes it just how do we get to that? How do we get to that? So we wait to see if we do get answers by video before the investigation. But keep an eye on it and the young The little boy's name, I don't even know if we said it. Cohen Wiley is the name one year old Cohen Wiley in Mississippi. You will be hearing his name more and if you get a chance, look him up. An adorable, cute little face.
00:16:15
Speaker 3: He is adorable. It is such a tragedy, folks.
00:16:18
Speaker 1: With that, we appreciate you spending some time with us I TJ alongside Hamy Robot. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Monday, June twenty second, and a family in Mississippi is demanding that police release body cam video because they think it might help answer a question about why an officer fired into a moving car, killing a one year old. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. What what robes? Such an unnecessary event this was? And then when you hear what it was over it makes it in some way worse.
00:00:37
Speaker 2: Oh my god, when you actually get into the details of what we know happened, it is sickening. I was reading it at every detail just made me feel worse and worse because yes, this all took place earlier this month, on June fourteenth, and it all happened or unfolded in a Walmart parking lot. This is in Senatobia, Mississippi.
00:01:02
Speaker 1: It's about a nine to even hour drive south of Memphis.
00:01:06
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yees. So you know the area fairly well.
00:01:09
Speaker 2: And so police got a shoplifting call and they responded to the scene and what was reported having been stolen.
00:01:19
Speaker 1: Diapers is the report. So the story and what we're talking about here is a one year old child is dead after a shoplifting call about diapers and we get into the detailed herobes. It is a they said, they said right. There are two different sides of this story and about what was a threat and what the officer should and shouldn't have been able to do. But the family is now demanding that the city release the bodycam video, which they have not yet. This June fourteenth is when this incident took place, and Robes the call comes in and we can tell you what at least authorities say took place once they arrived in Robes. I mean, I don't know. It seems like they felt like they encountered people who were fleeing in some way.
00:02:16
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is I'll do the exact I'll give the exact police description of what happened. So this is from the police statement. Law enforcement officials or officers responded to a shoplifting call at Walmart on US fifty one. Upon arrival, officers encountered two subjects and a juvenile 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. 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 officer has received any serious physical injury.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: I mean, they're saying, Robes that the shooting, at least in their mind right now, was justified or at least giving the reason for it. They're saying, whoever was driving that car turned it into a deadly weapon and was attacking an officer essentially, Isn't that what they're saying.
00:03:24
Speaker 3: That is exactly what they're saying.
00:03:26
Speaker 2: And look, we both know that for an officer to fire into a moving vehicle is a major, major no.
00:03:36
Speaker 1: No, that's a huge no no.
00:03:38
Speaker 2: You don't do it for multiple reasons because a you don't know who is in the car, you don't know who is around the car. Firing into a moving vehicle creates a lot of possible and maybe even probable unnecessary injuries and or deaths.
00:03:55
Speaker 3: It's just too risky to do, and.
00:03:57
Speaker 1: That it's such a high bar for being justified and doing so. And certainly a car that's driving away, you would have to justify that that vehicle and whoever's in it is an immediate threat to the community. You can't justify that necessarily. The other thing is that if the car is coming at you and it's a threat to you, yes you're justified. But they also teach officers all the time don't stand in front of a moving vehicle. So it just shouldn't happen. Robes and it looks cool in the movies, right, the super cool cop, the star of the movie car going away, firing at the car and maybe hits the gas tank and it blows all that stuff. That No, that's not what police officers are taught to do.
00:04:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is incredibly tragic. You know, you've got a mom, the mom's friend and a one year old little boy with a box of diapers a bag of diapers in their car. Whether or not they stole those diapers is.
00:04:55
Speaker 3: Still in question.
00:04:56
Speaker 2: We can get into that in a moment, because they have made statements about this. But the idea that there was a woman fighting for her life and an infant, a one year old dead because an officer looked. We need that bodycam footage, and we know from the family they want the bodycam footage from the police officers they want the dash cam footage from the police vehicles, and they want the surveillance video from the Walmart parking lot. It seems as if with all of those things combined we can get the answer, because the question is were they fleeing the scene, were they trying to get away, or were they driving into and towards an officer. They claim they were trying to get away, and the officer who shot and fired at the vehicle is claiming that they were aiming for him.
00:05:45
Speaker 1: And Robes, you just said, though this is or it seems like it should be a knowable answer. Yes, it seems like there can. There should be in evidence of this. Now the other it could come out, and then there'll be different sides interpreting the same thing with our eyes differently. That's possible, But Robes, it's still how do we get how do this incident rise to the level that Diapers, which we should say a friend of the family is said absolutely not. She wasn't stealing and also she didn't witness sidy crime. She didn't have anything to do with anything. And Robes she they even described that the family came out and the mom was kind of playing with the kid like they weren't running or in a hurry, because they were kind of playing around.
00:06:34
Speaker 2: So they said that they were not running from the store, that no one stole anything, and that they were casually walking to their vehicle, that this was not a situation in which they were the way it was described, certainly in the police report, it made it seem as if they were racing out of the store and trying to get away from officials while stealing some diapers.
00:06:54
Speaker 3: That is not what they described at all.
00:06:57
Speaker 2: And so look, the other question was their attorney, a very notable attorney, Ben Crump, said, why didn't the police just let the car go and take down the license plate number? I mean, this isn't some massive heist. Even if let's say they stole the diapers. It's a bag of diapers. Yes, that is a crime. Yes that is punishable, but it's not as if it's some urgent, imminent danger to the community. If these two women with a one year old get away in that moment, right the damn license plate down, I mean, why wouldn't that be the protocol?
00:07:32
Speaker 1: The only way it's possible is if that vehicle was coming directly towards him, and he felt like his life was threatened. That has to be it, because nothing else makes sense. You're just because you see two people run out of a store where a shop lifting call came from and get in a car and start driving away. You're not a cowboy. You can't start firing at the car. That's just not what you do. Only way Rose he this video has to show this vehicle coming at him.
00:08:06
Speaker 2: And this is why police need to always have bodycam footage, because we would never know if it weren't for that footage. Because that is what we're gonna know. The angle the police officer was standing at, we're gonna know what he was saying.
00:08:19
Speaker 3: Was he angry?
00:08:20
Speaker 2: Was he telling them to stop and they didn't, and he was pissed off about it, Like we don't know what happened in the moments before he decided to fire, and at what point the car was coming towards him or at him. And look, this is another interesting point because the autopsy on this little one year old is being done right now, and the angles at which the bullets struck the child, they were saying, we'll absolutely be able to see if it was straight on, if it was head on, that would be the officer feeling like, yes, that vehicle was coming at him, but if the bullets were at an angle, it would it would absolutely suggest something different. So that is certainly a fascinating part of this case. There are going to be answers from the autopsy and from the surveillance footage as well. They are going to be able to at least get some answers right now. But in the meantime, there are a lot of angry members of the.
00:09:16
Speaker 1: Community, of course, and understandably so. And this is down in the Mississippi Delta and the part of the country where, yes, you do have riffs and black communities and riffs between those communities and the police, and this is continuing that thing. Meanwhile, they have not and people are demanding and wanting to know. But we don't know the identity of the officer or officers involved, but they are on leave at this point. The investigation is ongoing, but they are telling us that the bodycam video and other video a part of the investigation rope, is not going to be released until the investigation is done, so we don't know when that might be. Obviously, the police chief and the mayor have the authority to release video ahead of time while an investigation is going on, if they believe it serves the public good and the public interest, and this certainly would seem to be one of those cases. But the city did have a message for the community, and that community was please stay calm. We'll let you hear it when we come backstare.
00:10:28
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where there are some very angry and concerned residents and certainly a grieving family. In Mississippi, a one year old little boy was shot by police in a Walmart parking lot. They shot at a moving vehicle. In that vehicle was that little boy's mom, her friend, and police claim they had a stolen bag of diapers inside that vehicle. According to police, they claimed that that vehicle was headed toward an officer who felt threatened and that is why shots were fired. But the woman, the friend who was driving, was critically injured. And yes, that little one year old boy is dead. And there is a community and a family that is demanding answers. They want the videos from the police officers, the dash cam, the bodycam, the surveillance footage.
00:11:24
Speaker 3: But there have been demonstrations.
00:11:26
Speaker 2: That Walmart parking lot has a massive Mayship memorial, and there have been a lot of angry protesters, so much so tear gas has actually had to be released in moments when things have gotten that I don't want to say violent, but certainly charged.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just say, this is one of those where the community needs answers right now, and that video is what robes and whatever is on it could further inflame things if the community sees it, but it could also have a justification for the shooting. What do you do with something like this world it's it's sometimes the community and the police, whatever relationship they already had just gets ignited. This didn't this isn't new stuff necessarily, this is brought to the surface.
00:12:17
Speaker 2: This is pouring gas on a on a flame that's always been there, but now it's burning brightly. And the attorney again Ben Crump, for the family, said this, it's to your point they have to get this footage out quickly because they say, if it's the truth what police are saying, if it happened the way they said it happened, then show us that the longer you delay releasing the video, the more distrustful we become.
00:12:43
Speaker 1: Yes, you told us what happened. Let us show you, show the family, show Ben Crump and let them come out and speak. But that makes perfect sense. What are you hiding? You want me to take your word for it. I don't have to. You can prove to me that what you're saying is true.
00:13:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, And here's the deal.
00:13:03
Speaker 2: The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation says, no comment. They're not going to even comment on what the videos investigators may have. They won't say whether or not if they have those videos, whether or not they would.
00:13:17
Speaker 3: Be released, when they'd be released, if at all.
00:13:20
Speaker 2: So just by saying nothing, that is the moment where people are going to get louder. They want to be heard and they have a right to get some answers in an already distrustful community.
00:13:33
Speaker 1: And to that point, the city put out a statement to his residence saying the investigation conigues, but quote our focus remains on ensuring that the facts are thoroughly examined and that accurate information to share through the appropriate official channels. We understand that emotions are high and that many questions remain. We respectfully ask our community to avoid speculation and the spread of unverified information. Whe they understand This is a community on edge to a great degree right now, and every day they don't get more answers. Robes, it looks like there's something to hide.
00:14:11
Speaker 3: Yes, and that makes a lot of sense.
00:14:14
Speaker 2: And you think about I mean, just put yourself in that mother's position. I mean, it's outrageous. This is two unarmed women with a baby and a bag of allegedly stolen diapers. Shots never needed to be fired unless you can show a video or some sort of proof that somehow these two women were revving their car and aiming for an officer in the middle of a Walmart parking.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: And that could very well be the case. Robes, just show us.
00:14:45
Speaker 3: Yes, and look.
00:14:48
Speaker 2: This. You know, and I know that Ben Crump is known for being a bit of a wordsmith, and he's covered and certainly represented many families in similar situations. But I did think what he said was very powerful. When speaking to reporters, he said they were called over a box of diapers, and a family now has to bury their baby. You cannot put those two things next to each other and call it reasonable policing. I really, that is the crux of it. We're talking about a report of stolen diapers and the outcome is a dead one year old and a critically injured woman and a grieving mother who will never be the same.
00:15:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not just an unfortunate accident or you know, weird circumstances. That's poor decision making and that's poor policing. Show the video still robes it just how do we get to that? How do we get to that? So we wait to see if we do get answers by video before the investigation. But keep an eye on it and the young The little boy's name, I don't even know if we said it. Cohen Wiley is the name one year old Cohen Wiley in Mississippi. You will be hearing his name more and if you get a chance, look him up. An adorable, cute little face.
00:16:15
Speaker 3: He is adorable. It is such a tragedy, folks.
00:16:18
Speaker 1: With that, we appreciate you spending some time with us I TJ alongside Hamy Robot. We'll talk to you