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Mississippi AG Says Police Killing of One Year Old Kohen Wiley “Was Justified”

How can any sensible human being with a beating heart bring themselves to say that shooting and killing a one-year-old baby is in any way justifiable? Apparently as far as the state of Mississippi is concerned, it is.

Earlier this summer, officers of the Senatobia Police Department responding to a call of suspected shoplifting opened fire on a vehicle occupied by two adults and one infant. Two occupants suffered gunshot wounds, with a one year old boy, identified as Kohen Wiley, dying from his injuries and his mother suffering non life threatening wounds that required hospitalization.

The shooting sparked outrage in the community and across the country, with protesters demanding justice for the slain infant. Justice, it seems, that will not come.

According to a statement released by the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch on Monday:

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. In this incident, the Attorney General’s Office found the use of force was justified. Pursuant to Section 45-1-6 of the Mississippi Code, the review followed an investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

The City of Senatobia would also release the following statement,

The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office has concluded its review of the June 14, 2026, officer-involved shooting in Senatobia, finding the use of force justified and declining prosecution. The state’s criminal case is now closed.

The City of Senatobia continues to extend its deepest sympathy to Kohen Wiley’s family and all those affected by this tragedy.

The shooting took place on June 14th of this year, in the parking lot of a Walmart in Tate County, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. As The Free Thought Project reported at the time, at approximately 2:00 PM officers of the Senatobia Police Department and Tate County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of a potential shoplifter. Whereupon their arrival, reports allege the officers witnessed two women, the young boy’s mother Vellesiya Wiley, and Latoya Ferrell, carrying a package of diapers and one year old Kohen Wiley to their vehicle.

A statement from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation at the time alleges that as the vehicle fled the scene it swerved towards officers, prompting them to discharge their weapon. This claim, however, remains unverified. In the months since the shooting video footage of the incident either in the form of police body camera footage, or surveillance footage from the parking lot, has yet to be released to the public.

Notably, neither woman has been charged with a crime in the months since the shooting.

The officer responsible for the death of the child was identified as 32 year old Sgt. Hunter Foster of the Senatobia Police Department. He will face no criminal charges.

According to reports from Mississippi Today, Sgt. Foster has a known history of misconduct, including using racist rhetoric towards his co-workers.

Additionally, court records show that in 2019 Foster, then employed by the Southaven Mississippi Police Department, was involved in an excessive use of force incident in which Foster later falsified police reports, exaggerating the threat of a vehicle and falsely claiming that the driver attempted to swerve towards officers.

Foster, however, is far from the only “bad apple” employed at the Senatobia PD.

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MS Democrat Senate Candidate Scott Colom Struggles to Explain His Transgender Surgery Position

Undercover video obtained by Breitbart News shows Mississippi Democrat Senate candidate Scott Colom struggling to string together a coherent position on the topic of child mutilation surgeries, saying he can’t remember the particulars of a letter he signed on the subject, doesn’t think the procedures should be legal, but also doesn’t believe in prosecuting doctors who perform them.

The two-and-a-half minute exchange shows Colom becoming increasingly agitated over the topic.

Colom, a local prosecutor, said he couldn’t remember details of a letter he signed in 2021 condemning efforts to criminalize “gender-affirming care for transgender people” by the far-left group Fair and Just Prosecution.

The group’s letter says laws banning gender mutilation are “blatantly unconstitutional attacks on some of the most vulnerable Americans [which] will deeply harm public safety.”

The letter is titled “JOINT STATEMENT FROM ELECTED PROSECUTORS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS CONDEMNING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AND GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE”.

The signatories state:

“[W]e pledge to use our settled discretion and limited resources on enforcement of laws that will not erode the safety and well-being of our community. And we do not support the use of scarce criminal justice and law enforcement resources on criminalization of doctors who offer medically necessary, safe gender-affirming care to trans youth, parents who safeguard their child’s health and wellbeing by seeking out such treatments, or any individuals who use facilities aligned with their gender identity.”

Colom is one of more than 75 signatories, who also include individuals such as Shannon Taylor, the Democrat nominee in Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, Chesa Boudin, the former San Francisco prosecutor who was removed from office in a recall vote over his soft-on-crime policies, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

He says to the undercover journalist, “So, I’m not for gender-affirming surgery for children… a ban is not a criminal thing.”

When pressed again he says it’s not legal for the doctors to do it, “but I wouldn’t criminally prosecute somebody for it.”

Colom begins to get more agitated when asked what is life-saving about transgender mutilation surgeries.

“I didn’t write the letter… I don’t remember all parts of it because it was a long time ago,” says Colom.

The letter was publicly released in June 2021.

Colom then shouts, “Listen, I have never been for gender-affirming surgery for children. I’m personally pro-life… I don’t think it should be legal, but I don’t think it should be criminal. I don’t think you should prosecute a doctor in court and send them to jail for — ”  Here the reporter breaks in, saying “mutilating children?” before Colom finishes his sentence with “– for healthcare procedures that the parent and child agree to.”

Becoming more agitated by the back-and-forth, Colom says, “What I’m saying is this: It’s fine that it’s civilly, you can’t do it. Doctors cannot do it. I don’t think this is a criminal situation. Maybe you want to prosecute a doctor for that surgery, that’s great. Run for DA, you can run on that, and good luck with that policy! I stand behind my position that it’s not a criminal issue because we can’t criminalize social issues!”

Colom is challenging Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the November election. She blocked his nomination to a federal judge position during former President Joe Biden’s administration. According to Mississippi television station WJTV, Hyde-Smith cited concerns at the time about large contributions from organizations connected to George Soros allegedly donating to Colom’s campaigns beginning in 2015.

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Case of Hanging Death of Black Woman in Mississippi Takes Another Twist as Democrats Sound the Alarm on Lynchings

The death of Tasia Fortune, the black woman found hanging from a tree, just took another interesting turn.

Earlier this month, a black man was arrested and charged with murder in the death of Tasia Fortune, a black woman who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, sparking unfounded claims of a potential lynching case, fueled by leftwing media and Democratic politicians.

Fortune, a 29-year-old mother of four, was found hanging from a tree on August 3rd in Jackson, Mississippi.

Outlets like CNN and the Associated Press immediately said the case brings up memories of the history of lynchings in the south even though Tasia Fortune was killed by a black man.

Two black men were arrested in connection with Tasia Fortune’s death.

“The death of Tasia Fortune, a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree on Aug. 3, has stirred distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings across the U.S. South,” the AP said.

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Another Democrat Busted! Former Columbus, Mississippi Vice Mayor Indicted For Money Laundering, Bid Rigging – Attorney Crashes Into Car After Leaving Court! 

Another day, another corrupt Democrat.

Former Columbus, Mississippi, Vice Mayor Joseph Mickens was arrested on Thursday morning for money laundering and bid rigging.

According to court documents, Mickens and local businessman Marcus Dawson cooked up a taxpayer-funded contracting scheme.

Joseph Mickens, who served as the Ward 2 councilman for more than 15 years, along with Dawson, allegedly rigged the bidding process for community center flooring jobs to ensure Mickens’ flooring company would get the bid and finish the work.

The two men lied to the Columbus City Council, claiming that Dawson’s HVAC business had completed the work.

Mickens was booked at Lowndes County Adult Detention Center and was released on a $15,000 bond.

Mickens faces up to 30 years in prison and $500,000+ in fines. Dawson faces up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

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Deep-Red Mississippi Hands Black Robe to Full-Hijab Yemeni Immigration Attorney Who Guides Illegals to Citizenship Paths

Mississippi conservatives are demanding answers after Ridgeland immigration attorney Assma A. Ali announced that she had been selected to serve as a municipal court judge, a history-making appointment celebrated by supporters as the first of its kind for a Yemeni-American Muslim woman who wears a hijab.

Amy Mek, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of RAIR Foundation, pushed the controversy into the national spotlight, accusing red-state officials of surrendering a “final firewall” and arguing that Ali’s immigration work and political associations deserve scrutiny.

She wrote on X:

Red State Mississippi just appointed America’s first Yemeni Sharia-hijabi judge.

Assma A. Ali – a full-hijab-wearing “immigration” attorney who built her career guiding illegal entrants and visa overstayers onto citizenship paths without ever needing a green card – now sits on the municipal bench.

Within hours, Yemeni community pages were gushing with pride – America is being conquered from within!

This is the same woman who:

• Extracted an “Arab American Heritage Month” proclamation from Republican Governor Tate Reeves

• Publicly defended the jew-hating, Saddam-glorifying, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Amer Ghalib.

He is the Former Hamtramck mayor – whose nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait collapsed in the Senate in October 2025 amid bipartisan opposition over his record – of COURSE Assma A. Ali was at the hearing to stand with him!

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Nolan Wells Did Not Undergo An ‘Independent Autopsy,’ Despite What Ben Crump And The Race-Baiting Media Say

You can tell how giddy the national media are about the possibility of more race riots by their repeated use of the fake term “independent autopsy” to describe the latest development in the Nolan Wells case. There was no independent autopsy, but they’re using that phrase to warm up their trusty racial agitation machine.

Shakedown artist and alleged attorney Benjamin Crump is back in the national spotlight of late, having parachuted into Jackson County, Mississippi, where 18-year-old Nolan Wells was found dead on July 6, floating face down near an island off the Gulf coast. Wells’ family commissioned a private autopsy, paid for by former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, the results of which — cause of death left “undetermined” — were announced by Crump at a press conference on Wednesday.

This is what he does. Crump, in all his illiteracy, seizes on some tragedy involving a dead black person, stirring up suspicions and hurling accusations before ultimately trying to squeeze out a multimillion-dollar settlement from the government, of which he takes something like a third. A big part of that strategy is working with the media, always compliant, to push out racist narratives, along with allegations and insinuations of wrongdoing by authorities, well before official investigations are complete.

In the case of Wells, there is neither a publicly available toxicology report nor an autopsy that has concluded his cause of death. The local sheriff’s department has only said Wells appeared to have drowned and that they had not found reason to suspect foul play, though an investigation was still underway.

Friends who last saw Wells said they were boating with a large group that included Wells on Independence Day. They said they stopped at an island, and when the friends Wells had arrived with were ready to leave, he remained behind with others. There are reports that Wells’ phone and keys made it back to the home of one of his friends who drove the boat, though it’s unclear how. A publicly available photograph from July 4 appears to show Wells posing and smiling with three other boys, who are white. Three of them, including Wells, can be seen holding canned drinks.

Few helpful details outside of that have yet to be confirmed by authorities or public accounts by witnesses. But why should that stop Crump? He’s got a racial sore to rub!

Crump has gone on TV to claim he heard about a possible argument between Wells and at least one other person on the day he went missing. He also said he spoke with someone who said Wells told her that he would be returning to the shore with the friends who brought him to the island, information that has not yet been corroborated by authorities.

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How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?

“One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was “killed after” a police officer fired at a vehicle, but there’s no verb you could use to connect those two things?

The Times subhed continued that pacifying work:

It is not entirely clear what led up to the shooting, but the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said that police officers were responding to a shoplifting call.

“Ohh, shoplifting…!” we’re evidently supposed to say, before turning the page; that might make the baby murder make sense. I don’t need to say that baby was Black.

There will be more coverage of this heartbreaking, infuriating news about cops in Senatobia, Mississippi, called to the five-alarm crisis of someone purportedly shoplifting diapers, opening fire into a car whose driver “allegedly drove toward them.”

But in the meantime, please think hard about reporting that tells you to calm down, that suggests that, just maybe, nothing wrong happened at all. As ABC News (6/18/26) put it in a piece on how the “officer involved in shooting outside Walmart that killed 1-year-old boy” has been placed on leave: “One-year-old Kohen Wiley was killed, according to the family’s attorney.”

So maybe he’s not dead? Or he died from something other than the gun of the “involved officer”? Caution in reporting is valuable, but when it’s mainly deployed to protect the inflicters of state violence (FAIR.org, 7/11/16), you have to ask if it’s really a principle at all.

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One Year Old Shot Dead In Walmart Parking Lot By Police Department With A History Of Abuse

In what can only be regarded as an absolute tragedy, a one year old boy is dead and an adult critically wounded as a result of an officer involved shooting.

The June 14th incident took place in the parking lot of a Walmart in Tate County, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. At approximately 2:00 PM officers of the Senatobia Police Department and Tate County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of a potential shoplifter. Upon their arrival, reports allege the officers witnessed two women, the young boy’s mother and aunt whose names have not yet been released, carrying a package of diapers and one year old Kohen Wiley to their vehicle.

The events that led to the shooting are unclear as video evidence has yet to be released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, but an official statement released by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety alleges that as officers made an attempt to stop the two women the vehicle veered towards one of the officers, nearly striking them, upon which time the officer drew and discharged their weapon.

Law enforcement officers responded to a shoplifting call at Walmart on US 51. 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 officers received any serious physical injury.

The family has denied any shoplifting took place. Whether or not the vehicle actually attempted to hit the officer is also so far unverified.

One witness statement of an individual who elected not to be identified was released by WREG Channel 3 News, seemingly indicating that the officers fired toward the rear of the vehicle:

I seen the officers take off running, not in the car, I’m talking about on feet, and these are the Sheriffs and the police,” she said. “They’re running through the parking lot and I see the car take off you know, so in my head, I’m like, I know they’re not chasing the car, they don’t think they’re going to catch the car. Then I hear gunshots and I’m like, I know they’re not shooting at a car that’s leaving in a public, this is Walmart.

Video obtained by Fox 13 Memphis shows the immediate moments after the shooting as officers chase after the vehicle on foot.

The officer responsible for the fatal shooting has yet to be identified, although it has been reported they have been placed on leave.

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5th Circuit UNANIMOUSLY VACATES Race-Based Redistricting Order – Mississippi NO LONGER Forced to Draw Woke Majority-Black Supreme Court Districts

The redistricting wars are escalating across America, and conservatives just scored another major courtroom victory.

The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has unanimously removed a lower court block that forced Mississippi to redraw judicial district maps based on race, a decision that could now open the door for Republicans to revisit the state’s congressional map, including the heavily Democrat-leaning district represented by the sham January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson.

The judges vacated U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock’s 2025 liability order that demanded the state redraw its 1987-era Supreme Court districts to create greater “Black voting strength” under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The decision, handed down just yesterday, sends the case back to the district court in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which made it crystal clear: racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional and race cannot be the predominant factor in drawing electoral maps without ironclad justification.

More from Magnolia Tribune:

Governor Tate Reeves (R) shared the Fifth Circuit’s action on Monday, saying, “Post Callais, both the plaintiffs and the State jointly requested this action.”

Reeves called it “a good day for those who believe in the principle that all Americans are created equal. A good day for law and order. A good day for Mississippi!”

The governor said in late April that he would call lawmakers into a special session 21 days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Callais to address state Supreme Court redistricting. That timeline would see lawmakers back in Jackson next week.

Soon after the ruling in Callais, leaders in both the Mississippi House and Senate instructed staff attorneys to prepare analysis on the ruling’s impact on state Supreme Court redistricting in Mississippi ahead of the likely special session.

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves announced he is calling a special legislative session for redistricting once the US Supreme Court rules on voting rights.

Governor Reeves said the legislature will convene 21 days after the Supreme Court issues a ruling.

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Bold New Billboard Warns Violent Criminals: ‘Welcome to Mississippi – Where the Firing Squad Is Legal. Think Twice’

A new billboard has gone up in Mississippi, warning would-be criminals crossing the state line from Tennessee that firing squads are legal there.

The billboard is on I-55 southbound, where drivers enter Mississippi from Memphis, and was put up by DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton.

“WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI. WHERE THE FIRING SQUAD IS LEGAL. THINK TWICE,” the billboard states.

The billboard is part of Barton’s aggressive public campaign to deter violent crime.

It directly references Mississippi’s 2017 law that authorizes execution by firing squad as a legal method of carrying out the death penalty when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.

Mississippi is one of only a handful of states that still permits this method, alongside electrocution and, more recently, nitrogen hypoxia.

District Attorney Barton is not mincing words in his reasoning for putting up the billboard.

“This campaign has one purpose: deterrence,” Barton told the Desoto Times. “We are going to be loud and clear that DeSoto County does not coddle violent criminals. If you bring violence across our state line, we are going to prosecute you aggressively and hold you accountable.”

“People on death row are the losers of life’s lottery,” Barton said. “If violent criminals are looking for a state that coddles crime, Mississippi is not it. They better think twice before they act here.”

Baron explained that “Safety is achieved through enforcement.”

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