An independent autopsy is adding fuel to community questions over how a Mississippi toddler was killed during a police response to a Walmart shoplifting call, NBC News reports. Attorneys for the family of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley say the exam found the bullet entered from the side of the car he was riding in, not the front, and that debris injuries on his torso match shattered tempered glass from a side window—details they argue undercut claims that an officer fired in self-defense as the vehicle drove toward police. Wiley's mother says her friend was driving the car away from police when the lethal shot was fired, the AP reports. A woman was also critically injured in the incident but is now in stable condition, Action News 5 reports.
Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, citing findings by forensic pathologist Dr. Roger Mitchell, said the pattern of wounds suggests "this police is shooting from the side," and pressed why an officer would fire into a car "where you're clearly not in harm's way." State investigators have released few details since the June 14 shooting and say they won't disclose video until their probe is finished; the officer involved remains on leave and has not been named. Crump is urging Walmart and authorities to make any footage public, while a local group, the Senatobia Committee for Accountability and Transparency, is pushing to get the case on the next city council agenda.
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